Residents inspect damage and rubble from a damaged building after what activists said was shelling by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, in Raqqa province, east Syria May 2, 2013. (Reuters)State forces and militias loyal to President Bashar al-Assad committed a “massacre” when they stormed Syria’s coastal village of Bayda on Thursday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, killing at least 50 people including women and children, reuters reported.
The Observatory said the final toll was expected to exceed 100 dead. Many of those killed appeared to be executed by gunfire or knives, it said, and other bodies were found burned.
Al Arabiya had learned after speaking to activists on the ground that there may have been up to 200 people who had been killed.....
FULL ARTICLE HERE: Watchdog reports ‘massacre’ in Bayda, at least 50 (100, 200?) dead - Alarabiya.net English | Front Page
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