The most radical jihadist group fighting in Syria on Sunday killed a 102-year-old man along with his whole family in the heart of the country, a monitoring group said.
The 102-year-old was shot dead in his sleep, with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) also killing his son, his grandson, his great-granddaughter and her mother, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
All the victims were Alawites, members of the same offshoot of Shiite Islam as Syria's President Bashar Assad.
Rooted in al-Qaida in Iraq, ISIL is the most extremist group fighting in Syria's war.
The rampage occurred as part of a larger attack on the village of Zanuba in the area of Hama. The Observatory said, “Some members of the family were burned alive, others killed in their sleep.”
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