Around 250 Syrian civilians are feared kidnapped after an attack by the Islamic State jihadist group on a cement factory east of Damascus, residents told a foreign media agency on Thursday.
“We haven’t been able to reach our family members since noon on Monday after an attack by Daesh on the factory,” said a resident of the town of Dmeir, 50 kilometres east of Damascus, using the Arabic acronym for IS.
An administrator at the plant said 250 employees had been unreachable since Monday.
