Daesh militants have planted mines and bombs around the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra, an activist group told Reuters on Sunday.
The Syrian Observatory of Human Rights was unable to discern whether the militants planted the explosives with the intention of destroying the ruins or if they were meant to deter the advances of government troops on the city, Reuters reported.
"They have planted it yesterday. They also planted some around the Roman theater, we still do not know the real reason," Rami Abdulrahman, the head of the Observatory, told Reuters.
Palmyra is home to 50, 000 people and some of the world’s best preserved ancient Roman ruins. Daesh extremists seized the city in May.
