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Arab News (10 June 2019)

AP, AFP

BAGHDAD

The head of Iraq’s forensics administration said his office will begin DNA testing to identify the remains of 141 bodies found in mass graves, believed to contain the Yazidi victims of Daesh’s killing campaign five years ago.

Zaid Al-Yousef said the bodies were found in 12 graves located by Yazidi survivors in the Sinjar region in north Iraq.

Al-Yousef told The Associated Press on Sunday it will take until August to identify the remains.

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