A report by the British Daily, the Independent, said that Takfiri militants massacred people of different religions as well as medical workers in a southern city in Syria last month.

A report by the British Daily, the Independent, said that Takfiri militants massacred people of different religions as well as medical workers in a southern city in Syria last month.

Residents in the industrial city of Adra said al-Qaeda-affiliated terrorists committed the massacre last December, the British daily reported on January 28.

According to the report, the militants of al-Nursa Front and the so-called Jaysh al-Islam went from house to house with a list of names, immediately killing or taking away 32 people of different religions, including Christians and Muslims, in the Syrian city.

Survivors of the carnage said the foreign-backed militants had also killed doctors and nurses in a clinic and thrown bakery workers into their own ovens.

Many al-Qaeda-linked groups like the al-Nusra Front and the so-called “Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant” (ISIL) are operating in Syria. This is not the first time that such groups perpetrate grisly crimes against innocent civilians in the Arab state.

Last October, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said extremist militants killed 190 civilians and held over 200 others hostage in Syria’s western province of Latakia in August 2013 alone.

Since the outbreak of the turmoil in Syria in March 2011, several video clips have been released showing the horrendous crimes committed by foreign-sponsored terrorists in the country.