Syrian 人質s who escaped Islamic 明言する／公表する receive rapturous homecoming
By Firas Maqdisi and Omar Sandiki
Qaryatayn, SYRIA, Oct 29 (Reuters) - Twenty six Syrian 人質s who escaped from their Islamic 明言する／公表する captors received an emotional homecoming on Sunday in the central 州 of Homs, 証言，証人／目撃するs and 公式の／役人s said.
They were の中で at least 70 people 誘拐するd and taken by 逃げるing Islamic 明言する／公表する 交戦的なs to a secret 場所 in the 砂漠 east of the town of al-Qaryatayn on Oct. 21 when the Syrian army and プロの／賛成の-政府 民兵s 回復するd 支配（する）／統制する of the town.
The others are still 行方不明の, によれば 地元の 公式の／役人s, who have not 公表する／暴露するd the 身元s of any of the 人質s.
Al-Qaryatayn lies nearly 300 kilometres (190 miles) west of Deir al-Zor city, the 現在の 焦点（を合わせる） of the Syrian 政府's 不快な／攻撃, with ロシアの jets and Iran-支援するd 民兵s, against Islamic 明言する／公表する.
About 200 people turned out in al-Qaryatayn on Sunday to welcome home the returning 人質s, によれば Reuters reporters who visited the war-scarred town during a trip organised by the Syrian 当局. Parents wept as they embraced returning sons while other 親族s and 地元の 居住（者）s threw 甘いs and sugar in the 空気／公表する in 祝賀.
"Thank God for your return," said an 年輩の man as he embraced a young man. Most in the （人が）群がる 拒絶する／低下するd to be interviewed.
Syrian 当局 said jihadists had taken 復讐 after 存在 軍隊d out after three weeks of fighting around the 郊外s of al-Qaryatayn, by 虐殺（する）ing 得点する／非難する／２０s of the city's inhabitants.
A 上級の 地元の 公式の／役人 said the 人質s escaped after they got past an Iraqi jihadist 交戦的な while he took a nap and 掴むd his gun and 発射 him dead.
But the joy surrounding the 人質s' return was still 影を投げかけるd by 死刑執行s 証言，証人／目撃するd in the town in the past few weeks when 交戦的なs 一連の会議、交渉／完成するd up 地元の 公式の／役人s and members of the 安全 軍隊s, police and members of their families and 遂行する／発効させるd them in 幅の広い daylight, によれば off icials. "We forgot our joy when thinking of the nightmare that we went through," 設立する Ghosn, a 地元の 政府 公式の／役人 told Reuters TV, 説 city 公式の／役人s had identified at least 70 out of 130 people 殺害された during the 復讐 殺人，大当りs. (令状ing by Suleiman al Khalidi; Editing by Susan Fenton)
