The Libyan National Accord authorities announced details of some of the 106 bodies found recently at Tarhuna City Hospital after being recovered from the forces of retired Major General Khalifa Haftar.

The "Borkan Rage" operation, which is affiliated with the Al-Wefaq government, reported that Anwar Al-Arabi, head of the forensic medicine department at the Center for Judicial Experience and Research, told him that 15 of those bodies belonged to families, including those of women, all of whom were recently dead.

Al-Arabi said that the ages of the dead ranged between 20 and 45 years, and that the cause of death was gunshot wounds to the head, chest and extremities, except for two cases. He added that six bodies were completely burned and charred.

He pointed out that the identities of the 15 bodies were identified except for one, which requires taking the DNA and matching the relatives of the missing.

Al-Wefaq government forces recovered the city of Tarhuna, southeast of Tripoli, from Haftar forces on June 5. After its control, it found dozens of bodies in the city's hospital, as well as found 11 mass graves containing about 160 bodies.

Mass graves

Libyan sources confirm that many of the discovered bodies belong to civilians executed by the Al-Kani militia loyal to Haftar on suspicion of opposing them, and that some of the bodies belong to prisoners of war.

The Al-Wefaq government sent a letter to the UN Security Council requesting that it refer the mass graves file to the International Criminal Court, and formally requested the United Nations to assist them in investigating the mass graves mortgaged.

The United Nations Human Rights Council adopted this week a resolution requesting the dispatch of an investigation mission to Libya, to document the violations committed there since 2016 by various parties to the ongoing conflict.

The UN resolution requests the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michel Bachelet, "to establish an investigation mission and send it to Libya."

Bodies in Tripoli

In a related context, the operation "Berkan Al-Fathi" announced the recovery of three unidentified bodies from Ain Zara, south of the capital, Tripoli.

Ain Zara has witnessed violent clashes and artillery shelling for over a year during the fighting between Al-Wefaq forces and Haftar militia.

The armed elements of the Russian Wagner Company and the armed Janjaweed factions in support of Haftar control large parts of the region before the reconciliation forces regained control.

Earlier, the Al-Wefaq government announced 57 explosions caused by mines planted by Wagner gunmen in areas south of Tripoli, which killed 39 civilians, including women and children, and wounded more than 80 others.