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Yazidi mass grave found in Iraq's Sinjar

Iraqi officials said they found another mass grave in the northern Sinjar region on Wednesday (November 22nd) containing the bodies of dozens of members of the Yazidi minority killed by the "Islamic State of Iraq and Syria" (ISIS), AFP reported.

"The mass grave contains the bodies of 73 people, men, women and children executed by ISIS when they controlled the region," local official Chokor Melhem Elias told AFP.

He said Iraqi security forces made the latest discovery in the Rambussi area near the town of al-Qahtaniyya.

In 2014, ISIS killed thousands of Yazidis in Sinjar and kidnapped thousands of the community's women and girls as sex slaves.

The UN and local authorities estimate 3,000 of them are still being held captive.

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