Islamic State militants have entered the ancient ruins of Palmyra after taking control of the Syrian city, monitors say.
Insurgents swept into Palmyra's military air base, prison and intelligence headquarters on Wednesday and were now in the city's ancient sites, Rami Abdulrahman, head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said.
Tens of thousands of people living in Palmyra may have fled in the last few days during fighting between government forces and Islamic State militants.
Around a third of 200,000 Syrians living in the neighbourhood of the ancient city, a UNESCO World Heritage site, may have left the UN human rights office said today.
U.N. human rights spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani in Geneva also said there were reports of government forces preventing civilians leaving until they themselves fled and Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL, took control of the city.
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