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SANA said the
grave, which contained many women and children, was in the
north-eastern edge of Palmyra. Some of the bodies had been
beheaded.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights which monitors the
five-year-old Syrian conflict through a network of sources on
the ground, said that Islamic State had killed a number of
people at an earlier time and buried them on the outskirts of
the city.
(Reporting by Lisa Barrington Editing by Jeremy Gaunt)
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