Solsticewitch13's BOS: ISIS carries out one of its 'worst massacres' in Syria within 24 hours of re-entering Kobane as 120 civilians are killed by snipers and rockets

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ISIS carries out one of its 'worst massacres' in Syria within 24 hours of re-entering Kobane as 120 civilians are killed by snipers and rockets

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ISIS fighters carried out swift attack on key city of Kobane
Women and children killed by jihadists who 'shot at anything that moved'
Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said every family lost someone

By Kate Pickles and Simon Tomlinson for MailOnline

Published: 13:02 GMT, 26 June 2015 | Updated: 16:50 GMT, 26 June 20152.6k shares

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Women and children are among 120 civilians massacred as ISIS fired at 'anything that moved' after re-entering the key Syrian city of Kobane.

The 24-hour killing spree in the town, which has become a symbol of Kurdish resistance, was widely seen as vengeance for a series of defeats inflicted on the jihadists by Kurdish militia in recent weeks.

Jihadists attacked the town on three sides after reportedly coming across the border from Turkey, a group which monitors the country's bloody civil war said.

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Fleeing: Turkish soldiers standing guard as Syrian Kurds wait behind the barbed wired on the Syrian side after they fled the Syrian town of Kobane

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said many of the dead were in their homes when they were killed by rocket attacks, or struck down by sharp shooters as they tried to flee.

SOHR director Rami Abdel Rahman, described it as one of the group's 'worst massacres' in the country.

'When they entered the town, the jihadists took up positions in buildings at the southeast and southwest entrances, firing at everything that moved,' he said.

'The jihadists knew that they could not stay and control the town in the face of the Kurdish forces. They came just to kill and strike a moral blow to the Kurds.'

IS launched a surprise attack on Kobane on Thursday involving three suicide bombers, just over a week after Kurdish militia ousted it from Tal Abyad, another border town further east.

Local journalist Mostafa Ali said that there was no military angle and that it had been orchestrated to cause devastation to locals.

'IS doesn't want to take over the town. They just came to kill the highest number of civilians in the ugliest ways possible,' he said.

Jihadi fighters went from house to house, butchering those inside, after using suicide bombers to penetrate defences in an attack that left at least 30 dead.