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KERBALA, Dec 27: Iraqi officials said they found the skeletal remains of 31 people in what they described as a mass grave in the holy city of Kerbala on Tuesday. A senior official at the laboratory to which the bodies were taken said the people appeared to have died during the suppression of a Shia uprising against Saddam Hussein after the 1991 Gulf War.
“There are 31 bodies. We’re still testing but it appears they are victims of the events of 1991,” the official told Reuters.
