Bodies showing torture signs found at hospital, Syria rebels say

Pictures showed bodies wrapped in blood-stained shrouds piled up inside a morturary at Harasta Hospital near Damascus.

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Video and photos showed bodies wrapped in blood-stained white shrouds piled up inside a refrigerated room at Harasta Hospital on Monday.

Several of the bodies appeared to have wounds and bruising on their faces and torsos. Pieces of adhesive tape bearing numbers and names were also visible.

"I opened the door of the mortuary with my own hands, it was a horrific sight," Mohammed al-Hajj, a member of a rebel group from southern Syria, told AFP news agency.

He said the rebels had gone to hospital after receiving a tip from a member of staff about bodies being dumped there.

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