Syria: Gunmen kill pro-regime family near Damascus

Unidentified gunmen stormed a Damascus home and killed five members of a family that supports the regime of President Bashar Assad, a monitoring group said on Sunday.

"Five members of one pro-regime family - a man, his wife and their three daughters -- were killed (on Saturday) by unidentified gunmen in the district of Rukn al-Din" in northern Damascus, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Their fourth child, an eight-year-old boy, survived by hiding in the bathroom, said the Britain-based group. (AFP)