BEIRUT, Feb 24 (Reuters) - Activists said Syrian
security forces lined up and shot dead at least 18 people in a
village in central Syria on Friday, including seven members of
the same family.
They said the victims were from farming families: men, women
and children including a ten-month-old baby and a 7-year-old,
from Halfiya in Hama province. Security forces lined them up and
shot them, activists said.
"Twelve of the people killed were shot in the head," an
activist in Hama told Reuters.
The motive for the killings was not immediately clear.
(Reporting by Mariam Karouny; Editing by Louise Ireland)
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