Iraq discovers 80 bodies at Camp Speicher Massacre site

Iraqi forensic specialists have reportedly found the remains of scores of victims of the June 2014 massacre by ISIS terrorists at an air force camp in Tikrit.

Iraqi forensic specialists have reportedly found the remains of scores of victims of the June 2014 massacre by ISIS terrorists at an air force camp in Tikrit.
Fazel al-Qarawi, a human rights specialist, told al-Forat news agency on Tuesday that experts from the Iraqi Establishment of Martyrs and Health Ministry had found 80 bodies inside former dictator Saddam Hussein’s palace compound in Tikrit, located 140 kilometers northwest of the capital Baghdad.
The remains, which were found submerged in Tigris River under tree branches, were brought out by a group of divers and transferred to the provincial department of forensic sciences for DNA testing.