Three mass graves found in ISIS-held Syrian province

bodies found in the newly discovered mass graves are believed to belong to members of the Shaitat tribe

Three mass graves were found in the village of Abu Hamam in Syria’s eastern province of Deir ez-Zor, the Syrian Center for Human Rights reported.

“The dead bodies found in the newly discovered mass graves are believed to belong to members of the Shaitat tribe who have been massacred by terrorists of ISIS,” said Syrian lawyer and spokesman of the Center for Human Rights Ibrahim Hussein.

ISIS terrorists have earlier executed more than 700 members of the Shaitat tribe in Deir ez-Zor for opposition the group’s control over the province.

 “The first mass grave was found in Nazal Gaada neighborhood in Abu Hamam village and it included ten dead bodies of civilians; the second was discovered in the Nabayi neighborhood and it included 20 corpses; while the third grave was found in the Madrasa Gharbi area in central Abu Hamam where seven corpses were revealed,” said Syrian Center for Human Rights’s spokesman.

Several children and women were among the victims.