1 | BEIRUT - Activists say Islamic State group has abducted 230 residents, including dozens of Christians, from a central Syrian town captured by the extremists earlier this week. |
2 | The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and Syria-based activist Bebars al-Talawy say they have no information where IS militants took the residents after overrunning the heavily populated town of Qaryatain. |
3 | The Observatory said Friday that "dozens" of Christian were among the people abducted, while al-Talawy put the number at 60. |
4 | He says the rest of those abducted are Sunni Muslims. |