TRIPOLI, Nov. 18 (Xinhua) -- Libyan security services and a Red Crescent team have found a mass grave in the city of Sirte, some 450 km east of Tripoli, according to a local official on Saturday.
"A Red Crescent team, in cooperation with security services, managed to locate a mass grave in the town of Al-Dher in western Sirte. They surrounded the site pending order from the Public Prosecutions to dig and exhume the bodies," Mohammed Al-Imil, spokesman for Sirte municipal council, told Xinhua.
"The mass grave contains an unspecified number of unknown bodies. DNA samples will identify them," Al-Imil added.
Mass graves of civilians or military personnel executed by the Islamic State (IS) are often found in Sirte.
IS affiliates seized control of the city two years ago, before the UN-backed government expelled and defeated them in December 2016.
