An Iraqi boy walks past a building destroyed during the fighting between Iraqi forces and Islamic states militants in Qayyara, Iraq April 6, 2017. REUTERS/Suhaib Salem
QAYYARA, Iraq (Reuters) - The stench hits you long before you reach the morgue where the latest casualties of war between Islamic State militants and Iraqi forces are kept.
Doctor Mansour Maarouf dons a surgical mask as he approaches the morgue refrigerator and pauses before pulling open the door to an icy blast. "In the name of God," he says out of respect for the dead.
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