TRIPOLI — Forty-two bodies have been found in a mass
grave in the Libyan city of
Sirte, a Daesh ex-stronghold, the country’s missing
persons authority said Sunday.
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Exhumation teams
unearthed “42 unidentified bodies” after following up reports of a “mass grave”
at the site of a former school in Sirte, the authority said.
“DNA samples
have been taken for analysis in coordination with the office of forensic
medicine,” it added, without elaborating further.
Sirte, a central
coastal city, was held by Daesh between 2015 and 2016, as it exploited the
chaos engulfing much of Libya in the wake of the 2011 overthrow and killing of
dictator
Muammar Gadhafi in a NATO-backed uprising.
The terrorist
group was dislodged by forces loyal to the then Government of National Accord
in December 2016 after months of intense house-to-house fighting.
In October 2017,
a grave containing the bodies of 21 Coptic Christians, executed by the
extremists two years earlier, was uncovered near the Mediterranean city.
Another mass grave with
the remains of 34 Ethiopian Christians was discovered near Sirte in December
2018, more than three years after Daesh published a video showing its personnel
executing at least 28 men described as Ethiopian Christians.
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