The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Corpses at the Euphrates banks raises number of executed and killed civilians by ISIS in al-Bushams massacre to 31 at least

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned from several reliable sources that the number of casualties has risen in the massacre of Al-Bushams village, which was carried out by the “Islamic State” organization on Friday the 19th of May 2017, and the reliable sources confirmed to the Syrian Observatory that bodies of 12 missing persons were found, their corpses were found lying at the banks of the Euphrates and in the lands surrounding al-Bushams village in the northwestern countryside of Deir Ezzor near the administrative border with the eastern countryside of Al-Raqqah, which was controlled by the Syria Democratic Forces and “Euphrates Wrath ” operation forces in March 2017.

The reliable sources informed the Syrian Observatory that the “Islamic State” organization abducted 9 persons of residents and citizens of the village, and took them to its controlled areas along with 3 fighters of Deir Ezzor Military Council who were executed yesterday, and by finding these bodies it rose to 31 at least including 2 children and 2 women, the number of civilians who were executed by shooting directly by the organization, where some of them were mass-executed after gathering them together, and some corpses were set on fire.