Report: 38 Hizbullah Fighters Killed in Syria Buried Secretly in Lebanon
Hizbullah had recently buried in Lebanon 38 of its fighters, who were killed on Syrian territory, al-Joumhouria daily reported quoting the joint military command of the Free Syrian army.
“Most of them were killed in the Reef of Homs while four fighters were killed in Damascus,” media head of the Free Syrian Army Fahed al-Masri pointed out.
“The corpses were transferred secretly to Lebanon and arrangements for the burial were made after buying the silence of the deceased's relatives,” the newspaper reported.
It was hard to identify some corpses as a result of severe burns and injures, it added.
Hizbullah has in recent months allegedly buried a number of fighters killed in Syria, without publicly disclosing how the men were killed, or where.
Sources close to Hizbullah have said only that the men were killed "while carrying out their jihadist duty."
Moreover, two Hizbullah snipers were killed in clashes in Reef Homs, according to Syrian activists.
On Sunday, a Hizbullah member killed in fighting in Syria was buried in southern Lebanon, several residents of the man's village told Agence France Presse.
The residents said that the funeral of Hassan Nimr Shartouni, 25, was held in Mays al-Jabal after the arrival of his body from Syria where he was killed in fighting on Saturday.
The Syrian conflict, which began with peaceful protests against President Bashar Assad regime, is now in its third year.
The United Nations says that at least 70,000 people have been killed, and more than one million Syrians have been forced to seek refuge abroad. Millions more have been internally displaced.
On Saturday, at least 126 people were killed in fighting across the country, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights watchdog -- 54 rebels, 28 regime forces and 44 civilians.
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