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230 bodies exhumed from Raqqa mass graves in 3 months: Response Team

(Zaman Al Wasl)- More than 230 bodies have been exhumed in three months from a mass grave in eastern Raqqa province, the First Response Team said Sunday. 

Yaser al-Khamis, head of the local rescue group, said in video statement that the exhuming work has been finished in the mass grave of Tel Zaidan area which is one of 25 more graves spreaded in the former capital of the Islamic State (Daesh)

Since the defeat of ISIS in Raqqa in 2017, forensic teams have begun to lift bodies that are believed to have been buried there during the four-month campaign to liberate the city. 

So far, 6,000 bodies have been exhumed from mass graves in the areas of the al-Rasheed Stadium, the zoo, the Bedouin neighborhood, and the ancient mosque.

Activists said the victims in the mass graves were not only killed by ISIS, but also by the US-led International Coalition airstrikes and the YPG-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). 

ISIS has been largely defeated in the country but has continued to carry out ambushes, assassinations and bombings and still poses a threat along its border with Iraq.

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