Mass grave found in Syria's Palmyra after city recaptured from Islamic State: state media

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)