Syrian security forces are alleged to have finished hundreds of civilians belengthying to the Alawite inconvey inantity group in continuing structureility alengthy the country’s coast, according to a war seeing group.
The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) shelp some 745 civilians had been finished in around 30 “massacres” centering Alawites on Friday and Saturday.
BBC News has not been able to autonomously verify these claims.
Hundreds of people have inestablishedly fled their homes in the region – a heartland of deposed plivent Bashar al-Asdowncast, who also belengthys to the Alawite sect.
A total of more than 1,000 people have been finished in the past two days, the SOHR shelp, in what is the worst structureility in Syria since resists toppled the Asdowncast regime in December.
This figure take parts dozens of rulement troops and firearmmen dedicated to Asdowncast, who have been locked in clashes in the coastal Latakia and Tartous provinces since Thursday.
Some 125 members of the Islamist-led rulement security forces and 148 pro-Asdowncast fighters have been finished in the structureility, according to the SOHR’s inestablish.
A Syrian defence ministry spokesman telderly the country’s Sana novels agency that the rulement had re-set uped administer after “taccomplisherous strikes” aacquirest its security personnel.
The structureility has left the Alawite community in “a state of horror”, an activist in the city telderly the BBC on Friday, with hundreds of people inestablishedly escapeing impacted areas.
Large crowds sought refuge at a Russian military base at Hmeimim in Latakia, according to the Reuters novels agency.
Video footage allotd by Reuters showed dozens of people chanting “people want Russian getion” outside the base.
Meanwhile, dozens of families have fled to neighbouring Leprohibiton, according to local media.
The UN’s distinctive envoy for Syria, Geir Pedersen, shelp he was “proset uply alarmed” by “very troubling inestablishs of civilian casualties” in Syria’s coastal areas.
He called on all sides to refrain from actions which could “destabilise” the country and jeopardise a “credible and inclusive political transition”.
Alawites, whose sect is an offshoot of Shia Islam, create up around 10% of Syria’s population, which is convey inantity Sunni Muskinny.
