Mass Grave Discovered in Palmyra!

Local Editor

A mass grave was uncovered by the popular defense groups in the northeastern parts of Palmyra city containing bodies of people who were killed by Daesh [the Arabic acronym for the Takfiri "ISIS" group] terrorists.

As the engineering units and popular defense groups were combing the area, they uncovered the mass grave and managed to pull 25 corpses, 3 of them are children and 5 others women in Masakin al-Jahizia neighborhood in the city.

Later, a field source reported that the number of bodies removed from the grave has reached 40 after pulling out 15 bodies, all of them belonging to women and children.

The source further added that efforts continue to pull more bodies from the grave, adding that some of the bodies were beheaded and others were brutally tortured.

It was in May 2015 that Daesh terrorists committed a massacre in Palmyra that claimed the lives of 400 people, most of them children, women and elderly.

In this regard, the source noted that the engineering units continue to dismantle the landmines and explosive devices which were planted by the group's terrorists in the ancient city of Palmyra and residential neighborhoods of the city.

Earlier on February 27, army units, in cooperation with popular defense groups, restored control over the ancient city of Palmyra and the residential neighborhoods after inflicting heavy losses in personnel and equipment on Daesh terrorists.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team