ISIS kills hostage from Syria's Sweida, local media says

About 30 hostages are still held by ISIS

epa06914249 People attend the funeral processions for victims of the suicide bombings that hit al-Sweida province on 25 July and claimed the lives of dozens of people and injured scores others, al-Swaida, Southern Syria, 27 July 2018. According to media reports, a number of citizens were killed and others were injured in suicide bombing attacks in Swaida city synchronizing with Islamic State (IS) attacks on a number of villages in the eastern and northern countryside of the province on 25 July 2018. EPA/STR

A funeral for victims of the suicide bombings that hit Sweida on 25 July. EPA

Aug 05, 2018

ISIS fighters have executed one of dozens of Druze hostages abducted from Syria's southern province of Sweida last month, a Syrian news outlet and a monitor said on Sunday.

The extremist group murdered the 19-year-old male student on Thursday.

The killing came after the militants kidnapped more than 30 people, mostly women and children, from a village in Sweida during a deadly rampage on July 25, the head of the Sweida24 news website, Nour Radwan, said.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war monitor, said it was the first execution since the kidnappings.

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