A/HRC/34/42 showed signs of torture and had been shot, many in the head. Unidentified armed groups, apparently aligned to Operation Dignity, had reportedly abducted at least five of the victims. The office of the Ministry of Interior in Benghazi reportedly opened an investigation into the July killings, but has not made public any findings. 26. UNSMIL/OHCHR has received information on abductions and killings of adults and children by armed groups or gangs of common criminals. For example, in western Libya on 24 February, the body of an 11-year-old boy with marks of torture and a wire around his neck was found in the Sayad area of Tripoli. His abductors had taken him 68 days earlier while he was on his way to school and demanded a ransom from his family. On 30 June, the Central Security Forces/Abu Salim group in Tripoli reportedly abducted a young man. His body was found in the street on 16 July, showing signs of severe beating and bruising. On 4 November, a 4-year-old girl was found dead in the Al-Ma’mura neighbourhood in Warshafana. An armed group had abducted her 15 days earlier. Her body was found in an abandoned farm with injuries to her head and neck, following the lack of a ransom payment. 27. In eastern Libya, armed groups aligned to Operation Dignity took a man from his home in Benghazi on 6 April. His body was found on 26 May with signs of torture, including a broken hand, and gunshot wounds. In a similar case, a man was detained in February 2016 and held for two months in a detention centre run by an armed group aligned to Operation Dignity in Tukra. He was released, but subsequently abducted from the street in Ajdabiya on 29 April. His body was found on 30 April with signs of torture, including cigarette burns, and gunshot wounds. 28. In southern Libya, on 25 July, unidentified gunmen abducted two officials from the civil registry office in Murzuq. On 27 July, their bodies were found in the street in Sabha. 29. Assassinations were also reported. On 10 May, unknown gunmen killed a media activist in Sabha in a drive-by shooting. On 16 March, a human rights defender was assassinated in a car bomb attack in downtown Derna. 30. UNSMIL/OHCHR has also documented executions of prisoners. In January, groups pledging allegiance to ISIL reportedly beheaded six prisoners; three from the Petroleum Facilities Guards group and three local officials in Sirte. The groups also executed a policeman in January, whom they had captured three months earlier, and hung his body on a pole in Harawa for 72 hours. They also executed five male prisoners in Sirte in March and three male nurses in July, who had provided medical support to the Libyan National Army. 31. On 20 March, the Derna Mujahedin Shura Council carried out eight executions of alleged members of ISIL. Armed groups from Warshafana abducted and then executed six men in March. In June, the Central Security Force group reportedly publicly executed two men accused of unknown crimes in Gaser Bengashir. 32. UNSMIL/OHCHR received information that in early June, Al-Bunyan al-Marsous forces executed a man who was suspected of being a member of ISIL in Sirte, shortly after he surrendered himself. On 21 September, video footage circulating on social media appeared to show ill-treatment by Al-Bunyan al-Marsous forces of a man accused of being a member of ISIL. This was followed by allegations that he was then executed. 33. UNSMIL/OHCHR has regularly supported victims and their families, providing advice and intervening with government officials and armed groups at all levels through meetings, letters and public statements. UNSMIL has issued a regular monthly report on civilian casualties in Libya. It has also supported civil society to work on protection cases, through direct cooperation and capacity-building and carried out regular briefings with the international community. It has also supported a local mediation effort with both the Libyan National Army and the Benghazi Revolutionaries Shura Council to seek a ceasefire and 7