Six people were killed on Tuesday in Syria’s central Homs province, a war monitor said, as security forces launched a sweep of the area.
The security forces were operating in the area around the village of Ghour al-Gharbiya in western Homs “against the remaining militias supporting” ousted president Bashar al-Assad, the official news agency SANA reported.
The operation also targeted drug traffickers and smugglers, SANA said, citing a security source.
An “arms depot and munitions belonging to the ousted regime” were found, it added, reporting that violent clashes had broken out.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said six people had been killed in the Shifa-majority village, which lies close to the border with Lebanon.
The Observatory later specified that among those killed, two were “armed individuals” who died during clashes with security forces, while the other four were “civilians executed by local gunmen who entered the town” alongside the security forces.
