Man bazooka-ed into oblivion by jihadists

22 May 2015 - 02:08
By ©Daily Telegraph

Islamic State jihadists murdered a group of pro-government fighters in Syria yesterday, beheading some and shooting one with a rocket-propelled grenade, after seizing the ancient city of Palmyra and its world-famous Greco-Roman ruins. Revenge killings began almost immediately.A picture sent by activists to a Western journalist showed a row of men in a street in Palmyra, known locally by its Arabic name Tadmur, lying in a pool of blood.

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