Haunting traces left behind by ISIS in Libya – The Washington Post

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Haunting traces left behind by ISIS in Libya

Photographer Lorenzo Tugnoli and writer Sudarsan Rhagavan go on a a journey through the topography of war and ambition

via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2016/10/02/haunting-traces-left-behind-by-isis-in-libya/

The black shapes were becoming more focused, until they were sharp as the sun’s rays. A mangled truck here, a charred car there. They were the detritus of an Islamic State suicide bombing that killed dozens of pro-government fighters. We silently stepped out and surveyed the brutality. Our guide told us that men were so obliterated by the power of the blast that their body parts melted in the heat.