ISIS still holding 30 workers out of 300 kidnapped from cement factory in Dumeir

ISIS are still believed to be holding 30 cement factory workers captive as they continue to question the hostages over their religion and summarily execute those who 'wrongly' answer the questions. It may be recalled that the terrorist group had abducted 300 members of staff from Al-Badia Cement Company in Dumeir, near Damascus in Syria, when they carried out a surprise attack on government forces.
This has been reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 10 April 2016.

It seems the people, all of whom were guards, are still being help by the group, who are killing those from a minority Druze sect and asked others if they were Muslims. AS reported by SANA, 'employees and executives of the Al-Badia cement factory' were abducted by the jihadists after local residents reported that at least 250 workers at the plant had been missing since Monday. Further, the company had informed the industry ministry that it was unable to make contact with the kidnapped individuals.
The cement plant is located about 45-Km northeast of Damascus.
Mass abductions in Syria is not new and there have been earlier such instances in Syria during the country's devastating civil war which is now in its sixth year - the kidnappings were most often of religious minorities such as Christians.


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