Syria: 10 men killed by gunmen in Alawaite majority village, says report

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that “armed men” and committed a massacre in the village where most citizens belonged to the Alawaite sect

Gunmen have shot dead 10 people in an Alawite-majority village in central Syria, a war monitor said on Saturday.

Representative image: 10 men were killed by gunmen in Syria (Bernat Armangue/AP)

"Armed men committed a massacre" on Friday that killed "10 citizens in Arza village in the northern Hama countryside that is inhabited by citizens of the Alawite sect" of ousted leader Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.