Reports Of 'Massacre' In Syrian Village -- Al Jazeera
Activists say scores killed in assault by pro-government gangs backed by security forces on village near Hama.
Opposition activists in Syria say that pro-government armed groups backed by security forces have killed scores of people in a village in Hama province.
Both the Syria's Local Co-ordination Committees, an activist network, and the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) put the number of dead in Wednesday's attack on the village of al-Qubayr at more than 86.
But Syria's government denied any role in the killings.
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