Syria raid kills 43: some tortured, executed: NGO

BEIRUT, Aug 2: A raid by Syrian security forces near the capital Damascus killed 43 people, some of whom were tortured and executed, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Thursday.



"Regime forces entered the Jdaidet Artuz district (southwest of Damascus) on Wednesday and arrested around 100 young people who were taken to a school and tortured," the watchdog said in a statement.[break]



"On Thursday morning after the operation the bodies of 43 people were recovered. Some of them had been summarily executed."

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