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The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has released a video showing the killing of some 20 government soldiers in the historic town of Palmyra in central Syria.
The video released Saturday showed the soldiers being taken in pickup trucks from the town's notorious Tadmur prison to the amphitheater. At the theater, they are shot dead by young ISIL members armed with pistols. Hundreds of people were seen watching the killings.
It was not clear when the killings took place.
The Associated Press reported in May that scores of troops and state employees were killed after ISIL captured the town.
Palmyra is a UNESCO world heritage site famous for its 2,000-year-old Roman colonnades, other ruins and priceless artifacts. ISIL members destroyed two historic mausoleums in Palmyra, Syria’s head of the government’s Antiquities and Museums Department told the AP on June 24.
The Associated Press
Antiquities officials in Syria fear the armed group will next target the town's famed Roman ruins
Fall of ancient city, also known as Tadmur, opens way for armed group to advance toward key government-held areas
Men seen attacking ancient artifacts with sledgehammers, calling them symbols of idolatry
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