The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

West of Afrin | Fighter of Al-Sham Corps close to Turkey dies of injuries sustained in landmine explosion

Aleppo Province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights:

SOHR sources say that a member of the Islamic Al-Sham Corps faction close to Turkey was killed as a result of his wounds sustained with a military commander of the Corps, this afternoon, in a landmine explosion in the village of Ba’i west of Afrin city in Aleppo countryside. 

Reliable SOHR sources have confirmed that a military commander of the Turkish-backed “Al-Sham Corps” was injured in a landmine attack in Ba’i village in the countryside of Afrin city in north-western Aleppo.

On November 23, Observatory activists documented the death of a military commander of the Turkish-backed “Al-Sham Corps” and his companion near the Syrian border with the Iskenderun region, north-west of Idlib. According to SOHR sources, the commander and his companion were killed while working in stone quarries on the commander’s land in the city of Salqin.

Earlier that day Syrian Observatory activists also reported that the commander of “Hanano Brigade” of Al-Sham Corps which is close to Turkey died of his wounds sustained in IED explosion. The explosion had targeted the commander’s vehicle a day earlier in Kafr Takharem area in north-western Idlib.