1,000 bodies from Iraq-Iran war found
BAGHDAD, Iraq, April 1 (UPI) -- Iraq says it has found the bodies of
1,000 soldiers who were killed in an area in southern Iraq that witnessed
some of the fiercest battles during the 1980-88 Iraq-Iran war.
Brigadier Hassan Mohammed al-Douri, head of the Iraqi committee for
the Gulf War victims, said today that the panel located the bodies in the
Shalamja region in southern Iraq.
Al-Douri said the bodies of 463 Iraqi officers and soldiers as well
as the remains of 385 Iranian servicemen have been identified after checking
their clothes, helmets, military medals and official identification cards.
He said efforts were still underway to identify the rest of the remains.
Al-Douri said the Iraqi and Iranian committees for the Gulf War victims
were to meet in the coming days to organize the exchange of the bodies.
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