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The remains of up to 3,000 people, supposedly massacred during the 1991 Shiite uprising against Saddam Hussein's regime, had been exhumed from a mass grave near Baghdad, a doctor leading the excavation said on Wednesday.
Rafid Husseini said local people had retrieved or located over 3,000 bodies in the mass grave in Mahawil, some 90 km south of the capital, over the past nine days. There were still countless bodies unearthed at the site.
It has been the largest mass grave found in Iraq since US forces overthrew the former Iraqi government on April 9. Several other mass graves also have been discovered across Iraq, including one which held 33 bodies outside the southern city of Basra.
On Wednesday, many Iraqis went to the site and searched for faded identity cards among the skeletons to identify whether their family members or relatives who disappeared during the 1991 uprising were among them.
(Xinhua News Agency May 15, 2003)
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