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Syria: Isis massacres 52 people in central Hama
Death cult storms village, beheads children

ISIS terrorists massacred 52 people yesterday during a failed counteroffensive in Syria’s central Hama province.

The official Sana news agency said 52 residents had been killed and 45 injured when the death cult’s fighters stormed the village of Aqarab al-Safiyeh east of the town of Salamiyeh.

The chief of the National Hospital in Salamiyeh, Dr Noufal Safar, said the hospital received 52 bodies, including 11 women and 17 children. He said some of them had been beheaded and others had their limbs amputated.

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