Seventeen bodies have been unearthed in newly found mass graves in western Libya's Tarhuna region, taking the total exhumed in recent months to 112, the missing persons authority said Saturday. Lotfi Tawfiq, who heads a committee tasked by the UN-recognised Government of National Accord to search for missing people, said five new mass graves containing 17 bodies had been discovered since Thursday. The graves are located in Tarhuna, from where eastern strongman Khalifa Haftar's forces launched an aborted assault last year on the capital Tripoli, seat of the GNA. The presence of mass graves in Tarhuna was first reported after the withdrawal of Haftar's forces from western Libya in June. The graves found this week are the latest in a string of grim discoveries in Tarhuna, and excavations continue.

Source: Libya Today November 07, 2020 14:15 UTC