Mass Grave of 34 Daesh Victims Discovered in Syria

Date: 16 February 2018 - 20:03

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DAMASCUS (Press TV) – Syrian government forces have discovered a mass grave containing the bodies of nearly three dozen people executed by members of the Daesh terrorist group near the country’s northern city of Raqqah.
A Syrian field commander, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Syria’s official news agency SANA on Friday that Syrian troopers made the discovery in the al-Ramthan area of the province, located about 455 kilometers (283 miles) northeast of the capital Damascus, and the grave has the corpses of 34 civilians and military personnel in it.
An unnamed civilian defense official said the bodies have been transferred to the military hospital in the northwestern city of Aleppo to be identified through DNA tests, and later returned to their families.
Syrian Forensic Medicine General Director Zaher Hajo told Arabic-language and pro-government al-Watan daily in early January that Daesh terrorists had executed 10,000 people and buried their bodies in mass graves across Raqqah.
He stressed that his colleagues had confirmed the presence of 4,000 bodies in one single grave.
Hajo went on to say that Syrian Health Minister Nizar Yazigi has ordered the formation of a committee in order to collect the remains of the victims and transfer them to the military hospital in Aleppo.
He stated that identification of the victims, using their teeth and bones, will start next week, stressing that he will chair the committee.