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Syrian regime forces have reportedly executed 26 people including women and children at a check point in the Syrian central city of Hama late Friday.
Releasing a statement, Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) said Syrian President Bahar al-Assad's troops backed by pro-regime militia killed at least 26 people including 2 women and 4 children at a check point near a Sunni village of Hama, in west-central Syria.
The London-based group, relying on a network of activists, doctors and lawyers on the ground in Syria, stated that pro-regime forces carried out a "massacre" using knives to kill residents of Sheikh Hadid village, executing some of them by shooting.
"Twenty-six people were killed – two women, four children and twenty men – by regime forces using guns and knives," the group said Saturday.
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