ISIS strap three men to ancient Palmyra columns before blowing them up
FANATICAL members of the terror group Islamic State (ISIS) have murdered three people by strapping them to columns in the ancient city of Palmyra and blowing them, according to a respected monitoring group.
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Rami
Abdel Rahman, head of the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human
Rights (SOHR), said ISIS "tied three individuals it had arrested from
Palmyra and its outskirts to the columns...and executed them by blowing
up" three columns.
Khaled al-Homsi, a local
activist from the besieged city, which is a Unesco World Heritage site,
said ISIS had not yet informed local residents who the executed
individuals were or why they had been killed.
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He
said: "There was no one there to see (the execution). The columns were
destroyed and IS has prevented anyone from heading to the site."
Video released last week showed the 2,000-year-old iconic Arch of Triumph being blown up by ISIS fighters.
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Palmyra stands at the crossroads of several civilizations
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The ancient site has been ravaged by ISIS
One
pole of the arch is still standing, but most of the structure - which
stands at the top of a colonnaded street that runs through Palmyra - has
been completely destroyed.
Fears
are growing that the terror group is preparing to blow up the Roman
amphitheatre - which has been used as a venue for gruesome public
murders.
The jihadi group also beheaded Palmyra's 82-year-old former antiquities director in August.
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Fort at the Roman city of Palmyra
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