Factional infighting | Young man killed in armed clashes in Aleppo

Aleppo province: SOHR activists have documented the death of a young man and injury of others in Marae’a city in the northern Aleppo countryside due to clashes with machineguns.

According to sources, clashes erupted between armed groups of Al-Khatib family, which is affiliated to Luwaa Al-Waqqas, near Al-Goma’a market in Marae’a city in the northern Aleppo countryside.

The police cordoned off the area of clashes to break them up and arrested the shooter. Reasons behind the clashes remained unknown.

On January 5, SOHR sources reported that a member of Al-Hamza Division opened fire on a displaced civilian from eastern Ghouta following a dispute between them in Al-Nofiteh street in Al-Bab city centre in east Aleppo countryside. The civilian was hit with three gunshots at his thigh and he was taken to Al-Bab hospital.