ATAREB: Rescuers said that a volunteer associated with White Helmets was killed when a missile fired by government troops targeted his car on Tuesday.
Rescuers and a monitor said that the incident occurred in northern Syria. In a statement via social media, the group said that the first responder was killed while carrying out inspections in the region that had been targeted by shelling from the government troops.
Missile Kills Volunteer in Syria
The group said, “Abdul Basset Ahmed Abdel-Khalek “fell prey to a missile purposely meant at the rescue team’s vehicle in southeast Atarib,”. Similarly, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the volunteer was killed by a “missile fired by the government troops.”
Over four million people live in the rebel-controlled region of north and northwest Syria, an area hard struck by a massive quake in February that had its epicenter in Turkey.
According to the Observatory that since January 2023 as many as 243 people, including 16 civilians, have been killed in the areas despite a truce negotiated by Ankara and Moscow after a government offensive in March 2020.
Syria’s civil war broke out in 2011 with the ruthless suppression of anti-government protest demonstrations.
It later evolved into a complex crisis involving foreign forces and militants and has killed over half a million citizens and displaced millions.
