ISIS reported to have blown up ancient temple in Palmyra

Monday, 24 August 2015, 09:28

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ISIS reported to have blown up ancient temple in Palmyra

ISIS has reportedly blown up a 2,000-year-old temple in the historic ruins of Palmyra in Syria.

INTERNATIONAL NEWS - ISIS' already burgeoning list of appalling acts appears to have grown even longer: the Islamic extremist group has reportedly blown up a 2,000-year-old temple in the historic ruins of Palmyra in Syria.

Maamoun Abdulkarim, Syria's director-general of antiquities and museums, told the Syrian state news agency SANA that local sources in Palmyra informed him that ISIS members rigged the Temple of Baalshamin with large quantities of explosives and detonated them.

There was uncertainty - not usual amid the chaos of the Syrian conflict - over when exactly the damage was done to the temple, which dates from the first century AD.

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