The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Rural Deir ez-Zor | Former Speaker of the People’s Assembly of Al-Busayrah city dies of injuries sustained in yesterday’s attack

Deir ez-Zor Governorate – Syrian Observatory for Human Rights:

SOHR activists say that the former Speaker of the People’s Assembly of Al-Busayrah city, has died of his wounds sustained yesterday, after being shot by two unidentified gunmen on a motorcycle.

Yesterday, SOHR sources reported that two unknown gunmen on a motorcycle opened fire on an official in the service bureau in “Deir Ezzor Civil Council” of the Autonomous Administration, who had served as the chief of “Al-Shaab Council” in Al-Busayra city, in the 20th street in Al-Busayra city.

Since July 2018 to date, the number of fighters, civilians, oil workers and civil servants assassinated in Aleppo, Deir ez-Zor, Raqqa and Al-Hasakah provinces and SDF-controlled Manbij area in northeastern Aleppo province increased to 661 persons.

The Syrian Observatory has documented the assassination of 238 civilians by armed cells, including 17 children and 11 women in the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor, Al-Hasakah countryside, Raqqa city and countryside and Manbij, in addition to the assassination of 418 fighters of SDF, including local leaders in the same areas, while four members of the International Coalition were killed, dozens of wounded were also reported by SOHR as a result of those assassinations.