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Daesh terrorists massacre 350 people in Syria's Deir Ezzor

Sunday, 17 January 2016 3:08 AM [ Last Update: Sunday, 17 January 2016 6:36 AM ]

Daesh-affiliated terrorists in Syria

Takfiri Daesh terrorists in Syria have killed nearly 300 civilians and an estimated 50 government soldiers in a bloody attack on the eastern city of Deir Ezzor in what the local media censured as a “massacre.”

Quoting local residents of the war-ravaged city, Syria's state news agency SANA reported the carnage on Saturday.

"The Daesh terrorists carried out a massacre in al-Baghaliyeh (in the northern outskirts of Deir Ezzor), claiming the lives of around 300 civilians, most of them women, children and elderly people," said the report.

"Legal and moral responsibility for this barbaric and cowardly massacre... lies on the shoulders of all the states that support terrorism and that fund and arm Takfiri groups," said Syrian Prime Minister Wael al-Halqi.

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Meanwhile, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights originally reported the massacre as a Daesh offensive that left up to 75 Syrian soldiers dead.

The Western-backed group later admitted that the increasing death toll in the attack, which included self-detonated bombings, involved civilians.

It further said that most of the victims were killed execution-style.

This is while the Takfiri terror group proclaimed that its forces staged several “suicide bombings” against Syrian troops in Deir Ezzor and seized control of its northern suburb.

The Deir Ezzor massacre came as Syrian armed forces killed at least 16 terrorists, and conducted air strikes against their key stronghold in the northeastern city of Raqqah.

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