The Iraqi press and military gather at the site of a recently found mass grave close to the northeastern city of Baquba. Iraqi authorities uncovered a mass grave north of Baghdad with 153 bodies of Al-Qaeda victims, many of them women, children and members of the security forces. (AFP/-)
Iraqi authorities uncovered a mass grave north of Baghdad on Saturday with 153 bodies of Al-Qaeda victims, many of them women, children and members of the security forces, police told AFP.
"Following a confession by a terrorist arrested two weeks ago in Baquba we discovered a mass grave containing 153 bodies of people killed by al-Qaeda in 2006 and 2007 " said General Abdul Hussein al-Sahamari, the police chief of restive Diyala province.
"The terrorist confessed that he and other members of Al-Qaeda had murdered the victims during those years. There are bodies of women, children, civilians, policemen and soldiers," he added.
The mass grave is located in the agricultural region of al-Tarf, 20 kilometres (12 miles) south of the provincial capital of Baquba, which until 2008 was an Al-Qaeda stronghold.
Sunni insurgents would erect roadblocks where they stopped cars and murdered Shiites in the confessionally mixed province.
"Following a confession by a terrorist arrested two weeks ago in Baquba we discovered a mass grave containing 153 bodies of people killed by al-Qaeda in 2006 and 2007 " said General Abdul Hussein al-Sahamari, the police chief of restive Diyala province.
"The terrorist confessed that he and other members of Al-Qaeda had murdered the victims during those years. There are bodies of women, children, civilians, policemen and soldiers," he added.
The mass grave is located in the agricultural region of al-Tarf, 20 kilometres (12 miles) south of the provincial capital of Baquba, which until 2008 was an Al-Qaeda stronghold.
Sunni insurgents would erect roadblocks where they stopped cars and murdered Shiites in the confessionally mixed province.
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