Oct. 2 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Libyan authorities announced this Sunday the discovery of a mass grave in Sirte with the bodies of 42 people allegedly executed by the Islamic State jihadist group during the period in which it controlled the city.
Libyan forces, backed by US airstrikes, in December 2016 expelled Islamic State from Sirte, a coastal town they had seized in 2015.
The bodies have been exhumed on the beach of Sirte in the presence of officials from the Prosecutor’s Office and staff from the Libyan Red Crescent, as reported by the General Authority for the Search and Identification of Missing Persons in a statement collected by the Arraed portal.
“The work team took samples of the bones to transfer them to the laboratories of the investigative commission, prior to the final burial of the remains,” according to the note.
Sirte beach was the site where Islamic State executed 21 people, mostly Egyptian Copts, in February 2015. The executions were published in a video, after which Egypt launched coordinated bombings with the Libyan Army against the positions of the jihadist group in the east of the country.
