The charred remains of at least 26 victims of the former Bashar Assad government were discovered in two separate basements in rural Damascus by Syrian civil defense workers. The remains, believed to include men, women, and children, showed evidence of gunshot wounds and burning.
The White Helmets, a volunteer civil defense group, exhumed the fragmented skeletal remains from the basements of two properties in the town of Sbeneh, southwest of the capital. Since late November, over 780 bodies, most unidentified, have been found in shallow graves by the White Helmets.
