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 The death toll was likely to rise because some of the dozens of
people wounded were in critical condition, the Britain-based Syrian
Observatory for Human Rights said.
Al-Kafat, in the central Hama province, is home to members of
Syria's Ismaili Shi'ite Muslim minority. The rebels fighting to
overthrow President Bashar al-Assad, an Alawite, are overwhelmingly
Sunni.
(Reporting by Alexander Dziadosz; editing by John Stonestreet)
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