Bodies of more than 230 Syrian Islamic State victims uncovered in mass grave

Source: Jerusalem Post

BEIRUT - More than 230 bodies of people believed killed by Islamic State militants have been found in a mass grave in Syria's eastern Deir al-Zor province, activists said on Wednesday.

The bodies were thought to be members of the al-Sheitaat tribe which had battled Islamic State militants, the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and activists monitoring the conflict said.

Their deaths would bring the number of Sheitaat members said to have been killed by the ultra-hardline Islamist group to over 900.

Omar Abu Layla, a spokesman for the moderate rebel umbrella Free Syrian Army group in Syria's east, said Sheitaat tribespeople had discovered the mass grave as they returned to their homes. Islamic State, occupying the area, had given them permission to return.


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