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Officials – residents pray over coffins bearing the remains of 200 people in Kerbala

 Officials  –  residents pray over coffins bearing the remains of 200 people in Kerbala

Officials and residents pray over coffins bearing the remains of 200 people during a burial ceremony at a cemetery in Kerbala, 80 km (50 miles) southwest of Baghdad October 11, 2011. The 200 people were believed to have been killed during the time of Saddam Hussain and found earlier at a mass graveyard containing more than 900 people in Iraq’s western province of Anbar, Iraq’s Human Rights Minister Mohammed Shia’a al-Sudani said on Tuesday. REUTERS/Mushtaq Muhammed.

Officials and residents pray over coffins bearing the remains of 200 people during a burial ceremony at a cemetery in Kerbala, 80 km (50 miles) southwest of Baghdad October 11, 2011. The 200 people were believed to have been killed during the time of Saddam Hussain and found earlier at a mass graveyard containing more than 900 people in Iraq's western province of Anbar, Iraq's Human Rights Minister Mohammed Shia'a al-Sudani said on Tuesday. REUTERS/Mushtaq Muhammed.