150 Burned Rebels corpses found in a Tripoli Warehouse A MASS grave holding up to 150 rebel corpses was discovered in a burned-out warehouse in Libya yesterday.
The grisly scene was found by families living nearby, who had been banned from going near the building on a military base near Tripoli.
The massacre is believed to have taken place on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Witnesses claim victims were killed with AK-47's and hand grenades by fleeing Gaddafi troops.
The bodies were discovered after rebel forces took control of the base of the 32 Brigade commanded by Gaddafi's son Khamis in the district of Salaheddin, a suburb just south of the Libyan capital. There were at least 50 skulls in the ashes of one building, and locals believe at least 80 people are buried in another grave near a makeshift prison next to the base.
One prisoner who managed to escape, Moayed Burani, claimed 130 men were crammed into the warehouse, then killed.
Among the tangle of corpses were two soldiers with their hands tied behind their backs who were thought to have refused to take part in the massacre.
It is the latest atrocity to emerge as Gaddafi's troops mount bloody last-stands after the dictator fled. Hours before the warehouse horror was exposed, 150 bodies had been found in Tripoli's Abu Salim hospital after doctors and staff were forced to flee in fierce fighting.
When rebels took control of the area, they returned - only to find their patients dead.
The corpses lay rotting on trolleys. One still had an intravenous tube in his arm.
Many had died untreated but others had been murdered.
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