News Center- 973 people have been killed in genocidal attacks on Syrian coastline and Latakia mountains, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), a Britain-based monitoring group, said on Sunday.

Since the beginning of the attacks, the monitoring group “has documented the death of 973 civilians in 39 massacres and other individual executions committed by military and security forces in the Syrian coastline and Latakia mountains.”

According to the monitoring group, 545 civilians were killed in Latakia, 262 in Tartus, 156 in Hama and 10 in Homs. “231 members of security services and the Ministry of Defense and 250 Alawite gunmen affiliated with the former regime were killed” since the beginning of the attacks.