Gunmen kill 10 in Alawite village in Syria: Monitor

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

“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.