Dead bodies of more Islamic State victims found in Raqqa city

The Kurdish-language Hawar News website reported that civil teams in the city have found the corpses of 190 people from a mass-grave in al-Talaeh Garrison South of Raqqa.

It noted that about 4,700 dead bodies of civilians and some ISIL terrorists have been taken out of mass-graves in Raqqa city.

Most of the bodies found in Raqqa belong to civilians who had been killed in US airstrikes in this region over the past two years and also civilians executed by the ISIL terrorist group on different charges.

In a relevant development in late March, the bodies of over 300 victims of the ISIL and the US air raids, including those of slain women and children, were discovered in mass-graves and from under the rubles of destroyed buildings in Raqqa.

The Hawar News reported at the time that the corpses of 304 people had been unearthed from a mass-grave in Fakhikheh region in Southern Raqqa since early January.

He added that most of the bodies belonged to the civilians, including women and children, noting that some of the victims had been executed.

Meantime, media activists reported that bodies of several civilians, most of them women and children, were pulled out of the debris in al-Adkhar and al-Ta’aminat districts of Raqqa in the past few days.

They said the corpses belonged to the people killed by the ISIL terrorists or in the US coalition airstrikes on Raqqa.

Source: Farsnews