Hundreds of bodies found buried in mass grave in Egypt

Scores of bodies have been discovered in a mass grave in northern Egypt by human rights campaigners.

The Sinai Foundation for Human Rights found the shallow graves near a military outpost in a rural part of the country previously torn apart by conflict.

They’re believed to be civilians who disappeared and were killed during a conflict between the Egyptian army and ISIS militants between 2013 and 2022.

In the findings shared with The Guardian, the foundation said a source who used to work with the armed forces approached them and revealed the location of the graves.

‘The source indicated that, over the course of several years, army and police forces had secretly buried hundreds of bodies at the two sites, without any formal procedures or burial rites,’ the foundation wrote.

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