FROM AL ARABIYA:

NTC discovers two mass graves containing up to 900 bodies near Tripoli

Wednesday, 05 October 2011

The military unit of Libya’s National Transitional Council has dicovered two mass graves containing as many as 900 bodies. (Photo by Reuters)

By AL ARABIYA WITH AGENCIES

DUBAI AND TRIPOLI

Libya’s new rulers have discovered two mass graves containing the bodies of as many as 900 people who had “died not long ago,” reporters on the scene said on Wednesday.

“Witness testimony has allowed us to uncover two mass graves of victims of the old regime,” Tripoli security chief Naji al-Issawi told a news conference in the Libyan capital.

A mass grave in Gargaresh, on the coast some seven kilometers (four miles) from the center of Tripoli, contained the bodies of about 200 people, Issawi said, thought to have died in the battles surrounding the rebel assault that ousted Muammar Qaddafi.
A second grave in Birasta Milad, a rural area 10 kilometers (six miles) from the city center contained an estimated 700, he added.

Journalists at the Gargaresh grave said that bodies seen had not died long ago judging by the lack of decomposition, AFP reported.

A pathologist told journalists at Gargaresh that at least two of the bodies had bullet wounds and around 20 had fractured skulls, reported AFP.

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