Mass grave found north of Baghdad
US military claims to have found a mass grave at Al Hatra, 170 miles north of Baghdad, estimated to house bodies of 400 Kurdish women and children.
The 101st Airborne Division made the discovery.
25 human remains were exhumed, all women and children with bullet holes through the skull. The size of the burial site suggests 400 bodies could be found.
Following the end of the war, at least 60 graves have been identified.
300,000 Iraqis are thought to have been executed during Saddam Hussein’s reign of terror.
A massive grave was unearthed in May in the southern district of Mahawil. Other have been found at Najaf, Basra, Babylon and other parts of Iraq.
