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More bodies uncovered in mass graves of Libya's Tarhuna

The UN-backed government said the bodies were found blindfolded and with their wrists bound.
This picture taken on November 7, 2020 shows an aerial view of members of the public body leading the "Search and Identification of the Missing," backed by the UN-recognised Government of National Accord (GNA), unearthing a mass grave site in western Libya's Tarhuna region. - Seventeen bodies have been unearthed in newly found mass graves in Tarhuna, taking the total exhumed in recent months to 112, the missing persons authority said on November 7. The graves are located in the region from where eastern str

Forensic experts in western Libya have discovered 10 more bodies buried in mass graves, the internationally recognized government announced on Thursday. 

“Three bodies were blindfolded and their wrists bound,” the Interior Ministry of the Government of National Accord (GNA) wrote in a Facebook post. 

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