Iraq : The body collector and the remains of the fallen in Mosul

Suroor al-Husseini is one of the few volunteers who started collecting remains of dead Isis fighters left to rot in wreckage of Mosul

In the immediate aftermath of the evil reign of ISIS, hundreds and perhaps thousands of bodies remain to be retrieved in the Old City.

The people of Mosul will forever be grateful for the combined weight of the Iraqi army, police and air force, an international armada of F-16s, Tornado and Rafale fighter bombers, as well as the SAS and their French and American counterparts. These were brought to bear to expel the thousands of Isis fighters.

The surprising thing then is that no authority could be bothered to pick up the bodies?






Since they began in January, Ms al-Husseini and a small team of volunteers have collected 650 corpses from the wreckage of the Old City. She considers that at least 1,000 remain. The figure is credible based on the ranks of collapsed and still unexamined houses, as well as the examples that lie openly in view.