Iraqi military says mass grave discovered in ISIL-held territory near Mosul contained 100 skeletons with heads severed.
The Iraqi military says it has found some 100 decapitated bodies in a mass grave south of the ISIL-held city of Mosul.
Brigadier-General Yahya Rasool, spokesman for the Joint Military Command, says the bodies were discovered on Monday near the town of Hammam al-Alil.
Most were reduced to skeletons, the Associated Press news agency reported.
A forensics team from Baghdad will investigate the site on Tuesday. Rasool says the state of the bodies made it difficult to tell by their clothes if they were soldiers or civilians.
ISIL has carried out several massacres since it swept into northern and central Iraq in the summer of 2014, often documenting them with photos and videos circulated online.
Iraqi forces launched a massive operation last month to drive ISIL fighters from Mosul and surrounding areas.
Al Jazeera
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