Libyan Authority for Searching and Identifying the Missing Persons said its teams had dug out 12 bodies from two mass graves in Tarhouna’s “5km agricultural project area”.

The Tarhuna Victims Association demanded, on Tuesday, the opening of an urgent investigation into the killing of Mohamed Al-Kani, a fugitive from the law who was wanted by the Public Prosecutor on charges of committing numerous murders in the city of Tarhuna in relation to the mass graves discovered in …

The Director of the Department of Search and Identification of Missing Persons, Lotfi Tawfik, stated that their teams had recovered three unidentified bodies, in a state of decomposition, in two graves on Monday, July 12, near the city of Tarhuna.

The search teams of the General Authority for Search and Identification discovered on Tuesday, July 6, a new mass grave site in the agricultural project five kilometers within the vicinity of Tarhuna.

The General Authority for Search and Identification of Missing Persons announced on Wednesday, June 16, the discovery of yet another mass grave in the city of Tarhuna.

The Libyan Search and Identification of the Missing Persons Authority discovered Wednesday a new mass grave in Tarhouna’s agricultural project area, digging out four bodies.

The General Authority for Search and Identification of Missing Persons reported that yet another two bodies have been recovered from two new graves in Tarhuna.

The Libyan Prime Minister Abdul-Hamid Dbeibah visited Tarhouna city and vowed justice for the people who lost their loved ones in mass graves’ crimes, saying it is the best way on the road to national reconciliation.

The Tarhouna Victims Association voiced concerns over the silence of the government toward the massacres and mass graves committed by Al-Kaniyat (Al-Kani) militia, loyal to Khalifa Haftar, against the city’s residents, describing it as “horrendous”.

The European Union yesterday imposed sanctions on two leaders of the Kani/Kaniyat Militia from Tarhuna.