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AP PHOTOS: Lonely burials for virus victims in Iraq's Najaf

by Associated Press
| July 23, 2020 11:27 PM

NAJAF, Iraq (AP) — Every chapter of Iraq’s modern history can be seen in the sprawling cemetery of Wadi al-Salam outside the holy city of Najaf. Its sandy expanse is growing, this time with coronavirus victims.

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