Bodies of 21 Egyptians killed by Islamic State in Libya recovered -report
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Read < 1minuteAn image made available by propaganda Islamist media outlet Welayat Tarablos on February 18, 2015, allegedly shows members of the Islamic State (IS) militant group parading in a street in Libya’s coastal city of Sirte, which lies 500 kilometres (310 miles) east of the capital, Tripoli. Egyptian F-16s bombed militant bases in the eastern Libyan city of Derna in mid-February after the Islamic State group in Libya released a gruesome video showing the beheadings of a group of Egyptian Coptic Christians who had gone to the North African country seeking work. AFP PHOTO / HO / WELAYAT TARABLOS
The bodies of 21 Egyptian Christians killed by Islamic State in its former Libyan stronghold of Sirte have been recovered, the attorney general’s office said on Friday.
The bodies were found in the same orange jumpsuits the victims were wearing when they were filmed being killed in the coastal city in February 2015, according to a statement provided to Libya’s Al-Ahrar TV channel.
Sadiq al-Sour, the head of investigations for the attorney general’s office, said last week that the area where the bodies were buried had been identified after a captured commander gave details of its whereabouts.
Islamic State took control of Sirte in 2015 and lost the city late last year to local forces backed by U.S. airstrikes.
