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At least 125 people are killed and up to 200 injured in bombings in the Alawite village of Aqrab, Syria.
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Aqrab massacre
Terrorist attack in Hama Governorate Syria
The Aqrab massacre is a contested event which occurred on 10/11 December 2012, during the Syrian civil war, in the Alawite section of the mixed town of Aqrab, Hama Governorate, Syria. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights claimed that 125 people were killed or wounded in those…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Alawites
Ethnoreligious group centered in the Levant
Alawites are an Arab ethnoreligious group who live primarily in the Levant region in West Asia and follow Alawism, an offshoot of Shia Islam as a ghulat branch during the ninth century. Alawites venerate Ali ibn Abi Talib, the "first Imam" in the Twelver school, as a…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Aqrab
Town in Hama, Syria
Aqrab is a village in central Syria, administratively part of the Hama Governorate, under the Hama District, in the Hirbnafsah sub district, located southwest of Hama at the governorate border with Homs. Nearby localities include Nisaf and Baarin to the west, Awj to the…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Syria
Country in West Asia
Syria, officially the Syrian Arab Republic, is a country in West Asia located in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant. It borders the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east and southeast, Jordan to the south, and Israel and Lebanon to the…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)