Syria Live Coverage: The Fighting Near Aleppo's Historic Mosque
Wednesday, February 27, 2013 at 6:37 | James Miller in EA Live, EA Middle East and Turkey, Middle East and Iran 2155 GMT: Massacre in Aleppo Suburbs. The LCC reports that a massacre has been committed near Aleppo, in a village near Al Safira. Here is their report:
Regime’s forces executed 72 martyrs from Malkieh village western of Sfeereh. 49 were identified while 23 martyrs remain unknown. Their bodies were burned.
Al Safira is the site of heavy fighting between the rebels and the regime. The rebel efforts there are being led by Jabhat al Nusra. The nearby chemical weapons depot is thought to be one of the largest of such facilities in the entire Middle East, and has been fiercely guarded by Assad's military.
As of now we have no pictures or videos of the incident, but we are looking. As such we have not independently confirmed the details of this story.
According to the LCC, 188 people have been killed nationwide today:
99 martyrs were reported in Aleppo, including 72 executed in Sfeereh ; 59 martyrs in Damascus and its Suburbs; 11 in Idlib; 8 in Hama; 4 in Homs; 3 in Daraa; 3 in Deir Ezzor and 1 in Raqqa.