Six hours after tanks and militiamen pulled out of Mazraat al-Qubeir, a Syrian farmer said he returned to find only charred bodies among the shouldering homes of his once-tranquil hamlet. “There was smoke rising from the buildings and a horrible smell of human flesh burning,” said a man who told how he had watched Syrian troops and “shabbiha” gunmen attack his village as he hid in his family olive grove. “It was like a ghost town,” he told Reuters by telephone, asking not to be named because he feared for his safety. READ MORE: Survivor tells of horror in Syrian village
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Six hours after tanks and militiamen pulled out of Mazraat al-Qubeir, a Syrian farmer said he returned to find only charred bodies among the shouldering homes of his once-tranquil hamlet.

“There was smoke rising from the buildings and a horrible smell of human flesh burning,” said a man who told how he had watched Syrian troops and “shabbiha” gunmen attack his village as he hid in his family olive grove.

“It was like a ghost town,” he told Reuters by telephone, asking not to be named because he feared for his safety.

READ MORE: Survivor tells of horror in Syrian village

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    This is horrible but should be known about. Poor people.
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