Dozens killed in another Syrian massacre

Activists said pro-government militia men and security forces killed at least 78 people, including children, in Syria’s central province of Hama yesterday.

Some of those killed in the village of Mazraat al-Qabeer were stabbed to death, the activists said, and at least 12 bodies had been burned.

A spokesman for the Syrian National Council, the main opposition coalition, said there had been a “massacre” in the villages of Qubair and Maarzaf.