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Eugene

(65,814 posts) Fri Jul 18, 2025, 09:50 PM Friday

'There were bodies everywhere': Druze residents describe 'bloodbath' in Syrian city Suweida

Source: BBC

'There were bodies everywhere': Druze residents describe 'bloodbath' in Syrian city Suweida

18 July 2025

Lina Sinjab
BBC News
Reporting from Damascus

Over the last five days, Rima says she has witnessed "barbaric" scenes.

The 45-year-old Druze woman has lived in the southern Syrian city of Suweida her whole life, and never thought her once-peaceful hometown would become the scene of a bloodbath.

"There were bodies everywhere outside our building," she told the BBC in a phone interview, using a pseudonym out of fear for her safety.

Rima said she huddled inside her home, bracing for the unimaginable, as gunmen - government forces and foreign fighters - moved through her neighbourhood earlier this week, going door-to-door looking for their next victim.

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