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2700 Iraqis missing since June onslaught
(MENAFN- Arab News) BAGHDAD: At least 2700 people mostly soldiers are missing as a result of attacks by the Islamic State group in Iraq the human rights ministry said on Monday.
More than half of those registered as missing by the government are soldiers who were at the Speicher base which the militants captured six months ago near Tikrit.
'The number of missing from Speicher base has reached 1660 from Badush prison 487 in addition to 554 from other areas including 38 women' the ministry said.
Badush is a prison outside the northern city of Mosul which IS has used as its main hub in Iraq.
The ministry said those numbers are based on applications filed by relatives and subsequent checking with the relevant ministries.
'The number of missing is likely higher than this' ministry spokesman Kamel Al-Amin told AFP. He said some families who have been displaced by the violence or live in areas under jihadis' control were not able to report a missing relative.
He said the ministry had asked the families of those confirmed to be missing to provide DNA samples 'in order to identify victims who might later be found in mass graves.'
According to Human Rights Watch IS gunmen executed up to 600 inmates from Badush prison on June 10 forcing them to kneel along a nearby ravine before pushing them in and setting fire to the bodies.
The following day they seized the Speicher base and claimed to have executed 1700 Shiite troops. The rights group was able to find evidence that at least 560 had been killed.
More than half of those registered as missing by the government are soldiers who were at the Speicher base which the militants captured six months ago near Tikrit.
'The number of missing from Speicher base has reached 1660 from Badush prison 487 in addition to 554 from other areas including 38 women' the ministry said.
Badush is a prison outside the northern city of Mosul which IS has used as its main hub in Iraq.
The ministry said those numbers are based on applications filed by relatives and subsequent checking with the relevant ministries.
'The number of missing is likely higher than this' ministry spokesman Kamel Al-Amin told AFP. He said some families who have been displaced by the violence or live in areas under jihadis' control were not able to report a missing relative.
He said the ministry had asked the families of those confirmed to be missing to provide DNA samples 'in order to identify victims who might later be found in mass graves.'
According to Human Rights Watch IS gunmen executed up to 600 inmates from Badush prison on June 10 forcing them to kneel along a nearby ravine before pushing them in and setting fire to the bodies.
The following day they seized the Speicher base and claimed to have executed 1700 Shiite troops. The rights group was able to find evidence that at least 560 had been killed.
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