After identifying their identities. Iraq mourns 78 people executed by ISIS

On Tuesday, the Iraqi authorities organized the funeral ceremony for the bodies of 78 ISIS victims executed in 2014, and their identities were identified by a DNA test after they were found in a mass grave near Badoush prison in the north of the country.

In June 2014, during its control of large areas in northern Iraq and neighboring Syria, the Islamic State transported about 600 men held in Iraq's Badoush prison in trucks to a valley before being shot by its gunmen.

On Tuesday, funerals were held in Baghdad and another in Najaf in the center of the country, to bury 78 victims of Badoush prison.

In Baghdad, in front of the martyr's monument, victims were laid to rest in coffins covered in the Iraqi flag and placed in army cars to the tune played by a military band.

"On the occasion of the identification of 78 remains of the martyrs of Badoush prison who were executed in cold blood by the criminal terrorist gangs of ISIS, a symbolic funeral was held for the remains of the martyrs and the remembrance of this painful tragedy," the official Iraqi News Agency (INA) quoted Health Minister Saleh al-Hasnawi as saying.

The Director General of the Medico-Legal Department, Dr. Zaid Ali Abbas, speaking from Najaf, said: "78 cases out of 605 cases were identified as a first stage."