A report published by Syria’s official SANA news agency put the overall death toll from the carnage in the village of Mabujeh, located in the central Syrian province of Hama, at 48. Earlier reports had put the fatalities at 30 with many more injured, albawaba reports.
Police officials said most of the victims of the Tuesday massacre were women and children.
Syrian government forces, backed by volunteer fighters, later launched an operation and managed to retake control of the village from Daesh. Syrian military aircraft also carried a number of airstrikes and pounded Daesh positions in the area.
The development came days after the Daesh released a new video showing the purported beheading of eight Syrian soldiers in Hama.
The video, which went viral on Sunday, showed Daesh executing the soldiers, clad in orange jumpsuits, for “being Shia Muslims.”
On Tuesday ISIS executed at least 37 civilians, including two children, in a raid on a government held village in Hama province of central Syria, an activist group said.
ISIS "executed at least 37 people, including women and children, by burning, beheading, and firing on them" in the village of Mabujeh, said Rami Abdel Rahman, director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Syrian state television reported that 44 people were killed and 21 injured in the raid.
ISIS 'executed at least 30 people, including women and children, by burning, beheading, and firing on them' in the village of Mabujeh, said Rami Abdel Rahman, director of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights on 2 days ago.
The attack comes just days after a video released by ISIS showed its bloodthirsty fighters cutting off the heads of eight men it claimed were Shiite Muslims. That video is also understood to have been filmed in the province of Hama.
In the video An ISIS fighter speaks using a derogatory term for Shiites and calling them 'impure infidels.' He adds that the current military campaign against ISIS will only make the militant group stronger.
'Our swords will soon, God willing, reach the Nuseiries and their allies like Bashar and his party,' the man said referring to Syrian President Bashar Assad and Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group that is fighting on his side.