(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Damascus says criminal armed groups have abducted and brutally killed at least 14 Syrian civilians in the crisis-hit central city of Homs in Syria.
A Syrian military official said the 14 bodies were admitted to the National Hospital of Homs, the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) reported on Wednesday.
Some of the dead were “shot in the head and the chest and others were burned, stabbed with cleavers and then mutilated,” according to the official.
"My father left home for Homs… but after a long absence, we went to the National Hospital and heard that our father was martyred at al-Hashish Souq at the hands of terrorists," the agency quoted the son of a victim as saying.
Syria has been experiencing unrest since mid-March, with demonstrations held both against and in support of the country's President Bashar al-Assad's government.
Hundreds of people, including security forces, have been killed during clashes in Syria since the beginning of the unrest in the country.
The Syrian opposition accuses security forces of being behind the killings, but the government blames the deadly violence on foreign-backed armed gangs.
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24 August 2011 - 19:30
News ID: 261728
Fourteen citizens were martyred in Homs at the hands of the armed terrorist groups who kidnapped, tortured and killed them and mutilated their bodies.
