Seven years on, Yazidi survivor buries father slain by Islamic State

Thikran Kamiran Yousif, 22, is seen during an interview with Reuters at his grandfather's house which was destroyed in past Islamic State militant attacks, in Kojo, Iraq February 7, 2021. REUTERS/Thaier al-Sudani

KOJO, Iraq (Reuters) - Thikran Kamiran Yousif was 15 when Islamic State fighters surrounded his village in northern Iraq, rounded up residents and slaughtered several hundred of them, including his father, brother, grandfather and aunt.

Nearly seven years later, Yousif has returned to the village of Kojo in Sinjar district for the reburial of his father and 103 other Yazidis whose bodies had been dumped by IS in mass graves and have now been identified by DNA samples.