Was Al-Mada’an hostages a hoax??

After the media report­ing that the Al-Mada’an hostages was only a hoax there is one guy from the city itself still insist­ing that it wasn’t accord­ing to Irakna. This is the translation.

I am from Al-mada’an city, The ter­ror­ists crossed the river into the other side at Albu-Aitha area with boots after hand­cuff­ing the hostages and throw­ing them into the river before the army came to sur­round the city. The ter­ror­ists took shal­ter by the Al-Juboor tribe, so we ask this devil Al-Dahri [The head of ISC rep­re­sent­ing the Sun­nis] to take a look at the hostages dead bod­ies in the river and we ask the gov­ern­ment to chase the ter­ror­ists on the other side of the river by Al-Juboor tribe.

The link is here [Arabic]

Update
Peo­ple from Al-Swera city neig­bor­ing Al-Mada’an saw about 100 dead bod­ies float­ing down the Tigris river, the bod­ies could be the hostages from Al-Mada’an

The link is here [Arabic]