BEIRUT: Islamist rebels fighting the Syrian regime shot dead a 15-year-old child in front of his parents and siblings yesterday after accusing him of blasphemy, a monitoring group said.
“An unidentified Islamist rebel group shot dead a 15-year-old child who worked as a coffee seller in Aleppo, after they accused him of blasphemy,” said Syrian Observatory for Human Rights director Rami Abdel Rahman. He said the rebel group likely comprised foreign jihadists. “They spoke classical Arabic, not Syrian dialect,” he said.
“They shot the boy twice — once in the mouth, another in his neck — in front of his mother, his father and his siblings,” he added.
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