Mass Grave
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UN calls for probe into mass graves where 283 bodies uncovered at Gaza hospitals raided by Israel
World | Apr 24, 2024, 12:21 PM ISTThe latest development came after Palestinian Civil Defence in the Gaza Strip said it had uncovered 283 bodies from a temporary burial ground inside the main hospital in the southern city of Khan Younis.
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WHO declares Gaza's al-Shifa hospital a 'death zone' as it uncovers mass grave at entrance
World | Nov 19, 2023, 01:19 PM ISTCiting the lack of clean water, fuel and medicines, the WHO said that the al-Shifa hospital could no longer admit patients and patients including 32 babies are in extremely critical condition. It reiterated its appeal for an urgent ceasefire to end the "humanitarian catastrophe" in Gaza.
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Sudan: 87 buried in 1-metre-deep mass grave in open area in Darfur as RSF deny victims decent burial
World | Jul 13, 2023, 07:06 PM ISTSudan mass grave: UN said a large number of people including women and children were killed in an Sudan ethnic clash and added they have been buried in a mass grave outside the region’s capital El-Geneina.
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Iraq: 200 mass graves uncovered in region once held by ISIS
World | Nov 06, 2018, 11:50 PM ISTThe 202 graves verified by investigators dot northern Iraq and are a "legacy of ISIL's terror," according to a joint report by the UN mission to Iraq and the UN office for human rights.
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Iraqi troops discover mass grave near IS-held Mosul; experts begin probe
World | Nov 08, 2016, 07:48 PM ISTIraqi troops advancing into Islamic State-held territory near the city of Mosul discovered a mass grave on Monday, following which a team of Iraqi investigators today began probe into the site. The chilling find was
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Mass grave of 100 bodies uncovered in eastern Syria
World | Feb 15, 2016, 12:31 PM ISTDamascus: A mass grave of some 100 bodies was uncovered in Syria's eastern province of Deir al-Zour on Sunday, a media report said.Residents of Mrat town in the eastern countryside of Deir al-Zour uncovered the
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Mass grave with 62 bodies found in Colombia
World | Feb 08, 2015, 09:22 AM ISTBogota: The Colombian attorney general's office found in the southwestern part of the country a mass grave with the remains of some 62 people who might have been victims of paramilitary groups, media reported Saturday.The
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Mass grave found near Mexico town hit by violence
World | Oct 05, 2014, 12:45 PM ISTIguala: Mexican officials say they have found a clandestine grave holding an undetermined number of bodies outside a town where violence last weekend resulted in six deaths and the disappearance of 43 students.Guerrero State Prosecutor
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Mass grave found in Mexico
World | Aug 23, 2014, 07:24 AM ISTMexico City: At least nine bodies have been recovered from a mass grave in Tumbiscatio, a municipality in Mexico's troubled state of Michoacan, media reports said on Friday.The bodies have yet to be identified, but
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Sri Lankan family finds mass grave in garden in north
World | Mar 01, 2014, 04:21 PM ISTColombo: A Sri Lankan family has found the remains of at least nine bodies buried in the garden of their home in the former stronghold of the vanquished LTTE in the north, police said today.Senior
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80 bodies found in mass grave in former LTTE stronghold
World | Feb 26, 2014, 10:53 AM ISTColombo: Eighty skeletal remains have been dug out of a mass grave in a former LTTE stronghold in Sri Lanka, fuelling speculation that the bodies are of Tamil civilians who disappeared during the war with
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Sri Lankan mass grave dates back 25 years
World | Mar 28, 2013, 11:54 AM ISTMatale (Sri Lanka), Mar 28: A judge has announced that more than 150 human skulls and bones recovered from a mass grave in Sri Lanka were buried there about 25 years ago, strengthening suspicion that