Death Toll Rises to Eight After One of the Wounded Dies from His Injuries

Residents of Fahel village, in a statement, held the Syrian transitional government responsible and accused members of the HTs-led General Security militias' checkpoint of carrying out the massacre.

This aligned with local sources reporting that the van came under fire after passing through the General Security militias' checkpoint, after checkpoint personnel had confirmed the identities of the passengers and that they were from Alawite villages, the van was then ambushed by gunmen who had been waiting for it to pass.

Meanwhile, Al Jazeera channel rushed, just half an hour after the massacre occurred, to blame officers of the former regime, while the General Security commander in Homs city, speaking on Syria TV, also blamed those he called remnants of the former regime, less than an hour after the massacre took place, without any investigation being carried out.

The death toll in the sectarian terrorist attack rose to 8 after young Ibrahim Ghassan Ibrahim from the village of al-Shaniyah died from his injuries.
The final list is as follows:

"Ayman Najm Affara" (the driver) "Ahmad Hammad" "Nour Nasser" "Hassan Mi'mari" all from the village of Fahel

The two killed, "Suleiman Amir al-Qasim" and his brother "Maimoun Amir al-Qasim," from the village of al-Shaniyah.
Majd Nizami, from the village of al-Mahfoura.

And 4 wounded, among them: "Jaafar al-Saleh" and "Ibrahim Moussa" from the village of Fahel. Aghid Nasr, from the village of Awtan, who belongs to the Christian faith.

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