المرصد السوري لحقوق الانسان
The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

About 25 detainees and members of ISIS were killed by air strikes by the International Coalition on a prison in a border city with Iraq

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned that tens of people were killed and injured by air strikes carried by warplanes related to the International Coalition, which targeted Al-Bokamal city in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor yesterday afternoon the 9th of September 2017, and in the details obtained by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, 23 persons at least were killed by air strikes targeted a headquarters of the “Islamic State” organization in Al-Bokamal city at the Iraqi border, which ISIS used as a prison, and which is located near the former Political Security Building in the city, and the total casualties included 18 detainees in the organization’s prisons, most of them are citizens, in addition to five members of the organization were killed by the same strikes, the SOHR also learned that 10 of the prisoners are of the Iraqi nationality, while the strikes resulted in the injury of some people, some of them are still in serious cases.

And the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published in the 27th of June 2017 that warplanes, believed to be affiliated with the International Coalition, perpetrated a new mass massacre killing prisoners detained in one of ISIS prisons in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor. Where the SOHR learned that warplanes believed to belong to the International Coalition, targeted the house of Abu Abdallah Al-Naimi, a former commander in Al-Nusra Front “Al-Qaeda organization in the Levant” who has been executed by ISIS and whose house has been seized and turned into one of the prisons affiliated with ISIS Security Apparatus. The prison was divided into two main parts, one for holding civilians and the other for prisoners that belong to ISIS.

The air strikes that targeted the prison caused the death of 42 civilian prisoners at least. The SOHR observed that ISIS has spread the bodies over a public road near Al-Mayadin Bridge. In addition, 15 members of ISIS, including the prison security guards and some of the prisoners that belong to the Organization itself, The SOHR learned that the facility contained 100 prisoners of both civilians and ISIS members.

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