Iraq forces find locate of 2014 Speicher carnage

Iraqi forces have found the place where militants from the IS Takfiri terrorist group executed hundreds of troops abducted from Camp Speicher in the north of the city of Tikrit last year

Iraqi forces have found the place where militants from the IS Takfiri terrorist group executed hundreds of troops abducted from Camp Speicher in the north of the city of Tikrit last year.

According to reports, the location was found during the military operation by Iraqi forces to liberate the northern Iraq city from the clutches of the IS.

The Speicher massacre saw the terrorists executing more than 1,700 army cadets, mostly Shia Muslims who had been kidnapped from the camp on June 12 last year.

Following the abductions, the attackers took the victims to the complex of presidential palaces, killed them, and threw their bodies in the river. The massacre was filmed by IS and broadcasted on social media.

Iraqi forces have also found a mass grave in Tikrit near the river where ISIL had buried hundreds of soldiers after digging a hole. Clothes and identity cards were also found along with the bodies of the victims.