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Iran turning the mass grave of the 1979 revolution victims into a parking lot

This satellite photo provided by Planet Labs PBC shows Iran paving over Lot 41, where some of those executed in the chaos after Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution were buried, at Behesht-e Zahra cemetery outside of Tehran, Iran.
Updated on Sept 06, 2025 11:23 am IST

Vienna excavation reveals mass grave of warriors from Roman era

The bodies of 129 people have been confirmed at the site in the Vienna neighborhood of Simmering. (File)
Published on Apr 03, 2025 02:15 pm IST

Graves dug up over rumours of buried jewels in Bihar

A person responsible for looking after one of the cemeteries said the reason behind the digging of the graves was the general belief that they contained jewellery made of gold, diamonds and other precious stones. (HT photo)
Updated on Apr 21, 2022 01:18 am IST

Over 200 mass graves of thousands of Islamic State victims found in Iraq

In this file photo taken on April 12, 2015, Iraqis mourn near body-bags containing the remains of people believed to have been slain by jihadists of the Islamic State (IS) group lying on the ground at the Speicher camp in the Iraqi city of Tikrit.
Updated on Nov 06, 2018 04:50 pm IST

75 bodies found in mass grave near Libya’s Sirte

A mass grave containing 75 bodies has been found near the former jihadist bastion of Sirte in western Libya, an official said Wednesday.
Published on Oct 10, 2018 09:36 pm IST

5000 feared missing, death toll from Indonesia quake-tsunami climbs to 1763

This aerial photo shows Indonesian soldiers burying quake victims in a mass grave in Poboya in Indonesia's Central Sulawesi on October 2, 2018, after an earthquake and tsunami hit the area on September 28.
Updated on Oct 07, 2018 11:54 pm IST

Mass grave with skeletal remains of over 150 people found in Sri Lanka

The digging work at the old cooperative store site in Mannar was conducted for the 79th day Tuesday to establish if it was a mass burial site.
Updated on Oct 04, 2018 12:08 am IST

Mortal remains of 39 Indians killed by IS in Iraq to be brought back to India today

Pradeep Singh Rajpurohit, center, India's Ambassador to Iraq, watches while a casket holding one of Indians abducted by the Islamic State group in 2014, is loaded on a truck to be transported from Baghdad's main morgue to the Baghdad airport, in Iraq on April 1.
Updated on Apr 02, 2018 12:00 am IST

Myanmar says it would like to see ‘clear evidence’ of Rohingya genocide

In this January 24, 2018, file photo, Muslim Rohingya refugees who were staying in no-man's land at Bandarban between Myanmar and Bangladesh border carry their belongings to new locations after arriving at Balukhali refugee camp 50 kilometers (32 miles) from Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.
Updated on Mar 09, 2018 01:08 pm IST