Assassination | Unknown gunmen assassinate collaborator with security services in western al-Qalamoun in Damascus countryside

Damascus Countryside Governorate – Syrian Observatory for Human Rights:

SOHR sources say that unidentified gunmen assassinated a collaborator with the regime’s security services in the town of Renkos in the western Qalamoun in the countryside of the capital Damascus.

According to Observatory sources, the assassination took place on Saturday, after being shot while driving his motorcycle with his brother in the neighbourhoods of the town of Renkos. The attack left him dead and injured his brother with several bullets in the foot.

On October 8, reliable sources told SOHR that unknown gunmen opened machinegun fire on a young man in Jeiroud city centre in eastern Qalamoun in Rif Dimashq. The young man was taken later to Al-Qutayfah hospital where he died affected by his wounds. According to local sources, neither the perpetrators nor the motives behind this crime have been known yet.