Syrians describe terror as auitas families killed in their homes

The combatants who raided Hai to the Kusour recognized him, so he was saved from death but not looting. They took their cars and continued attacking other houses.

“They were strangers, I can’t identify their identity or language, but they seemed to be Uzbek or Chehen,” Fares told me on the phone.

“There were also some Syrians with them, but not official security. Some civilians were also among those who carried out the murder,” he added.

Fares said he saw families killed in their own homes, and women and children covered with blood. Some families ran to their roofs to hide but did not save themselves from blood spill. “It’s horrible,” he said.

The Human Rights Observatory based in the United Kingdom documented more than 740 civilians killed in the coastal cities of Latakia, Jableh and Banias. It is reported that another 300 members of the security forces and remains of the Assad regime died in clashes.

The BBC has not been able to verify the number of deaths independently.

Fares said things stabilized when the Syrian army and security forces arrived in the city of Banias. They pushed other features outside the city and provided runners for families to access safe areas, he said.

Ali, another Banias resident who asked us not to use his full name, corroborated the account of Mr. Fares. Ali, who lived in Kusour with his wife and 14 -year -old daughter, fled his home with the help of security forces.

“They came to our building. We were too scared just listening to people’s fire and shouts in the neighborhood. We learned about deaths from sporadic Facebook publications when we managed to connect. But when they came to our building, we think we have finished,” he said.

“They were after money. They knocked on the door of our neighbor taking their car, their money and all the gold or the value objects he had at home. But he was not killed.”