Field sources told al-Manar details on the attack which ISIL insurgents carried out against a cement company in which they abducted 260 workers.

Field sources told al-Manar details on the attack which ISIL insurgents carried out against a cement company in which they abducted 260 workers.

The Takfiri insurgents attacked the company late on Wednesday, the sources said, adding that there were 260 employees (230 workers and 30 drivers).

ISIL militants questioned the employees and then released the majority of them, according to the sources which said that the questioning lasted till 3:00 a.m.

Six of the workers were slaughtered in front of their colleagues, and then 180 were freed, while the fate of 30 others is still unknown, the sources added.

The company is a closed joint-stock company located north east of Abu al-Shamat area in Damascus Countryside.