Syria have shot dead 10 people in a "massacre" in a village home to members of ousted president Bashar al-Assad's Alawite minority, a war monitor said on Saturday.
Al-Watan, quoting a security source in Hama, said security forces "are surrounding the Arzah area to hunt the criminals" behind the killings.
AFP two vehicles carrying seven gunmen entered the village and targeted homes under the pretext of conducting weapons inspections.
new rulers, who toppled Assad in early December, members of the Alawite community, a branch of Shia Islam, fear reprisals because of the minority's link to the Assad clan.
Alawites has soared, with the Observatory recording at least 162 killings.
Atif Najib, accused of orchestrating a crackdown in Daraa, where the 2011 Syrian uprising began.
civil war that has killed more than half a million people.
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