Mass Grave of 23 Truck Drivers Found in Iraq's Recaptured Suleiman Bek

Mass Grave of 23 Truck Drivers Found in Iraq's Recaptured Suleiman Bek. (Fars).

Iraq's security forces said they have found a mass grave containing 23 bodies of truck drivers , who were executed by the terrorists of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Tikrit city of Salahuddin province.

Security sources told Alforat news agency on Thursday that the victims' bodies were found with gunshots in the heads in Suleiman Bek sub-district, of Tuz Khurmatu district, in Eastern Tikrit.

Earlier this week, Iraqi security forces managed to free four ISIL-controlled villages in Suleiman Bek district.

Soldiers of the Iraqi army and Pishmarga have been engaged in heavy fighting with the militants on different fronts and have so far been able to push them back in several areas.