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Iraqi police found a new mass grave containing 40 victims executed by Daesh in the Iraqi city of Ramadi west of Baghdad on Monday, according to Iraqi police officials.

Iraqi police reported finding a mass grave in the city of Ramadi which has been under the control of Daesh. The city was captured at the end of last month from the militant group which has been taking over different regions in Iraq since 2014 and committing mass killings and numerous beheadings and executions in the cities under their control.

Iraqi troops had to use heavy coalition air support in the process of taking back the city of Ramadi.

The mass graves included bodies of women and children, and of both civilians and police officers, according to spokesman of Ministry of Interior Brig. Gen. Saad Maan, AP reported.

Militants had been taking over different parts of Anbar capital Ramadi since early 2014, but they only succeeded in taking over the whole city as of last May. The mass executions seem to go back to that date, explained Iraqi police Major Tareq Abdulkarim to AFP.

The mass grave in the Al-Jamiya area of central Ramadi which was found on Monday is "expected to contain the bodies of 40 victims," Abdulkarim explained, further adding that:

“So far, we have removed 18 bodies including five members of the police, and work is continuing to remove the remaining victims,"

The medical staff in the city worked on bringing the victims’ bodies out of the grave where Doctor Shakir Ahmed al-Hajj also confirmed to AFP that dozens of bodies were found in the process of disinterring.

Head of the Anbar provincial council Sabah Karhout confirmed the discovering of the mass grave as well and said that the victims had been either shot or beheaded.

Many of the bodies bear signs of torture, bullet wounds, and some have been dismembered.

The finding of mass graves in areas previously occupied by Daesh has been a recurrent matter; where many mass graves have been found in liberated areas in both Syria and Iraq.

The extremist group usually broadcasts its murders in videos and pictures.

A couple of weeks back the UN confirmed the finding of 16 mass graves resulting of executions committed by Daesh in the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar. The city of Sinjar had been liberated by Kurdish forces who had pushed out the Daesh in November this year.

The terrorist group had occupied Sinjar ever since summer of 2014 and has killed thousands of the Yazidi religious minority sect, enforcing the women of the sect into sexual slavery, according to reports.

Violence has erupted in northern and western parts of Iraq ever since 2014 when Daesh launched an offensive in the country. Ever since, the terrorist militants have been committing crimes against all ethnic and religious communities.

However, it has suffered major losses due to Iraqi police efforts and organized civilian mobilization groups, while remaining in control of significant areas of Anbar and Nineveh province to its north, and of neighboring Syrian areas.