IS ties captives to ruins and blows them up

Islamic State: Islamic State gathering has murdered three of its prisoners in Syria by binds them to Roman-time segments in Palmyra before exploding the structures with explosives.

Even local residents are in the dark about the identity of those killed, Khaled al-Homsi, a local activist from Palmyra city, said. “The columns were destroyed and Daesh has prevented anyone from heading to the site”, Homsi, who works with the local Palmyra Coordination Committee activist group said.

“Daesh is doing this for the media attention, so that Daeshcan say that it is the most villainous, and so it can get people’s attention”, Ayed said.

Palmyra, captured by the militants in May, was one of the most enduring signs of that heritage, standing until recently as the most complete panorama to survive classical antiquity.

IS considers pre-Islamic artifacts to be idolatrous and therefore worthy of destruction.

IS has destroyed two 2,000-year-old temples, an arch and funerary towers at Palmyra, one of the most important cultural centres of the ancient world.

An explosion at the ancient archaeological site in Tadmor, Syria, known as Palmyra, on Sunday August 23, 2015. In recent days, the terror group has used various methods to kill: it ran a tank over a young Syrian soldier and forced people to dig their own graves with their bare hands. The group has relied on looting and selling such antiquities on the black market for revenue.