A Human Rights group says that the Islamic State militants have executed 20 people in the ancient Roman theater in Palmyra, a UNESCO World heritage site. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says the militant group accused the men of working with the Syrian government and shot them.
The militant group captured Palmyra on May 21. It has executed more than 200 people in the city.
Syria’s antiquities director Mamoun Abdulkarim told Agence France-Presse that the killings are a sign of the group's barbarism and savagery against the ancient monuments of Palmyra.
