Mass grave of 10 bodies found in Syria’s Manbij
ALEPPO, Syria (North Press) – A mass grave, including more than ten bodies, was found on Wednesday in the city of Manbij, northern Syria.
It is likely that the bodies belong to civilian prisoners during the period of the control of Islamic State Organization (ISIS) in 2014.
A member of the medical staff supervising the exhumation of the bodies said, “according to the available preliminary information, the bodies are of civilian prisoners of the ISIS.”
He added that they could not identify their identities.
Until the moment, ten bodies were pulled out of the mass grave, that is near al-Madina hotel that is used to be a prison which ISIS used during its control of Manbij, the source added.
Municipality workers discovered the mass grave while they were working in cleaning a sewage sewer, as they at fist found corpses of three men handcuffed and blindfolded, the source noted.
After ISIS took control of Manbij in early 2014, the ISIS carried out a campaign of arrests that targeted hundreds of the city’s residents on various charges, and took the basement under al-Madina hotel as a prison for it. It was also carrying out executions of prisoners and buried them in mass graves, according to residents of the area.
Since Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) has taken control over the city of Manbij in 2016 after battles with the ISIS, many mass graves have been found in the public park in the city.
According to Manbij Health Committee, “As a preliminary result, ten corpses of civilians, including a woman, were found, and their ages ranged between 30 and 60 years.”
“Most of the corpses were handcuffed and blindfolded, and it seems that most of them were shot in the head,” the committee added.