Eight Alawites said shot dead by ‘security personnel’ in central Syria

Eight civilians from Syria’s Alawite minority were shot dead by “security checkpoint personnel” on Wednesday in the central province of Hama, a war monitor says.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, of unclear funding, says that “security checkpoint personnel carried out a field execution of eight civilians, including three women, and injured five others — all Alawite, travelling in “a civilian passenger bus” in the western Hama countryside.

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