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IS killed hostage from Syria’s Sweida: local media
BEIRUT, Aug 5, 2018 (BSS/AFP) – The Islamic State jihadist group has
executed one of dozens of Druze hostages abducted from Syria’s southern
province of Sweida last month, a Syrian news outlet and a monitor said
Sunday.
IS killed the 19-year-old male student on Thursday after kidnapping more
than 30 people, mostly women and children, from a village in Sweida during a
deadly rampage on July 25, the head of the Sweida24 news website Nour Radwan
said.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war monitor, said
it was the first execution since the kidnappings.
BSS/AFP/MSY/1145 hrs