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Isis destroys more of Palmyra including Roman amphitheatre, say Syrian authorities Isis destroys more of Palmyra including Roman amphitheatre, say Syrian authorities
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Isis has inflicted more damage on the ancient Roman city of Palmyra in Syria, the Damascus government has said.Isis has inflicted more damage on the ancient Roman city of Palmyra in Syria, the Damascus government has said.
Satellite imagery analysed by an NGO dedicated to preserving Syria and Iraq's cultural heritage shows that the Tetrapylon and part of the amphitheatre at the site have been destroyed, probably with dynamite, during an attack on Wednesday.  Satellite imagery analysed by an NGO dedicated to preserving Syria and Iraq's cultural heritage shows that the famous Tetrapylon and part of the site's amphitheatre have been destroyed, probably with dynamite, during an attack on Wednesday. 
Twelve people were reported killed in the assault.   The Syrian government's antiquities chief Maamoun Abdulkarim confirmed that the world-famous ruins had suffered further damage on Friday. 
The destruction was accompanied by a wave of executions, monitors said. 
Twelve local civilians, among them teachers, were reportedly either beheaded or shot in Palmyra's amphitheatre in front of a crowd of men and children during Wednesday's violence. 
The grand setting of Palmyra's amphitheatre was a favourite setting for gory propaganda videos and executions when Isis controlled the site between May 2015 - March 2016.
Jihadis managed to recapture the area in December last year in a surprise assault on Syrian government-allied Russian and foreign Shia troops. 
During the first ten-month-long occupation, the ancient site was ransacked, parts of it destroyed with sledgeahammers, bulldozers and dynamite, and the local population forced to live under Isis' harsh interpretation of Sharia law.
Dozens were executed among the ruins, including Palmyra's former head of antiquities, 81-year-old Khaled al-Assad, after he was found to have smuggled artefacts out of the city to protect them.
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