(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least seven displaced in coastal Tartous city have been killed Monday in reprisal acts carried out by Alawite militants after ISIS bomb blasts killed 120 people in Tartous and Jableh cities, media activists told Zaman al-Wasl.
Latakia Media Network said angry 'Shabiha' militants had attacked homes of displaced families in al-Karnak refugee camp, al-Kornaish and al-Thawra streets, with knifes and weapons. Seven people were stabbed and shot to death, the local news agency said.
Shabiha members have also set fire in refugee houses, activists said,
The regime police have not immediately interfered to protect the families who fled Homs city.
Meanwhile, The reprisals pushed tens of families to flee Tartous and Jableh heading Tal Kalah town near the Lebanese border.
About 20,000 people form Homs live in Tartous since the revolution erupted in March 2011.
Islamic State claimed the attacks in a statement posted online by the group's Amaq news agency, saying its fighters had targeted "gatherings of Alawites".
The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said more than 120 people were killed. State media said 78 people died in the attacks on Assad's coastal heartland.
Attackers set off at least five suicide bombs and two devices planted in cars, the Observatory said, the first assaults of their kind in Tartous, where government ally Russia maintains a naval facility, and Jableh in Latakia province, near a Russian-operated air base.
Fighting has increased in other parts of Syria in recent weeks as world powers struggle to revive a threadbare ceasefire and resurrect peace talks that collapsed in Geneva this year.
One of the four blasts in Jableh hit near a hospital and another at a bus station, while the Tartous explosions also targeted a bus station, the Observatory and state media reported.
Footage broadcast by the state-run Ikhbariya news channel of what it said were scenes of the blasts in Jableh showed several twisted and incinerated cars and minivans. (With Reuters)
Latakia Media Network said angry 'Shabiha' militants had attacked homes of displaced families in al-Karnak refugee camp, al-Kornaish and al-Thawra streets, with knifes and weapons. Seven people were stabbed and shot to death, the local news agency said.
Shabiha members have also set fire in refugee houses, activists said,
The regime police have not immediately interfered to protect the families who fled Homs city.
Meanwhile, The reprisals pushed tens of families to flee Tartous and Jableh heading Tal Kalah town near the Lebanese border.
About 20,000 people form Homs live in Tartous since the revolution erupted in March 2011.
Islamic State claimed the attacks in a statement posted online by the group's Amaq news agency, saying its fighters had targeted "gatherings of Alawites".
The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said more than 120 people were killed. State media said 78 people died in the attacks on Assad's coastal heartland.
Attackers set off at least five suicide bombs and two devices planted in cars, the Observatory said, the first assaults of their kind in Tartous, where government ally Russia maintains a naval facility, and Jableh in Latakia province, near a Russian-operated air base.
Fighting has increased in other parts of Syria in recent weeks as world powers struggle to revive a threadbare ceasefire and resurrect peace talks that collapsed in Geneva this year.
One of the four blasts in Jableh hit near a hospital and another at a bus station, while the Tartous explosions also targeted a bus station, the Observatory and state media reported.
Footage broadcast by the state-run Ikhbariya news channel of what it said were scenes of the blasts in Jableh showed several twisted and incinerated cars and minivans. (With Reuters)
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