DAMASCUS: Gunmen shot dead 11 people, mostly Christians, near a town in central Syria on Saturday, state media and activists said, an attack described by a local resident as aimed at members of the religious minority.
The resident, citing eyewitnesses, told The Associated Press that the gunmen randomly opened fire on roadside restaurants in a drive-by shooting outside Ein Al-Ajouz as Christians were celebrating a feast day. The state-run SANA news agency described the attack as a “massacre” and said women and children were among the dead.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that nine of those killed were Christians.
11 gunned down in Syria
