Libya exhumes 42 bodies from mass grave in Sirte
TRIPOLI, Libya (AA) – Libyan authorities have discovered 42 unknown bodies in a mass grave in the northern coastal city of Sirte.
The General Authority for Research and Identification of Missing Persons said in a statement that it received a notification from the office of the local prosecutor about a mass grave found in Ibn Khaldoun school in the Jiza al-Bahriya area.
It said 42 unknown bodies were exhumed over two weeks of work in the school.
The bodies were taken to a hospital to take samples from the bones and were buried later, the statement said.
The bodies are believed to be belonging to people killed by the ISIS which seized the city from August 2015 to December 2016.
Discoveries of mass graves are common in war-torn Libya, especially in Tarhuna city, a former stronghold for warlord Khalifa Haftar.
According to Libyan official sources, Haftar’s forces and affiliated militias committed war crimes and acts of genocide from April 2019 to June 2020.
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