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Mass grave found in Syria's Palmyra after recapture from IS: State media
Syrian troops found a mass grave containing around 40 bodies in Palmyra city, captured from Islamic State last Sunday, Syrian state news agency SANA said on Friday.
Published : 2 April 2016, 10:59 AM
Updated : 3 April 2016, 07:22 AM
Also Read: IS driven out of Palmyra
SANA said the grave, which contained many women and children, was in the north-eastern edge of Palmyra. Some of the bodies had been beheaded.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights which monitors the five-year-old Syrian conflict through a network of sources on the ground, said that Islamic State had killed a number of people at an earlier time and buried them on the outskirts of the city.
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