BERUIT, Lebanon, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- The remains of at least 20 people were found in a grave in east Lebanon near a former Syrian-run prison where many Lebanese detainees were held.
Excavation teams are continuing work at the site on a hillside in the town of Anjar, near the Syrian border, the BBC reported Sunday.
Correspondents say dozens of Lebanese disappeared during Syria's 29 years of military presence.
Lebanese detainees on their way to Syrian jails passed through the prison and those who died under torture were buried on the site, a BBC correspondent said.
Another 24 bodies were found last month in a mass grave near the Lebanese ministry of defense, east of the capital.
Most of the bodies belonged to Lebanese soldiers who fought against the Syrian army at the end of Lebanon's civil war in 1990.
