Afrin | Fierce clashes erupt between “Al-Hamzah Division” and displaced gunmen from eastern Ghouta leaving casualties

Aleppo Province – Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: Syrian Observatory sources have monitored fierce armed fight in Afrin city in the north-western countryside of Aleppo, between gunmen of “Al-Hamzat Division” and displaced gunmen from eastern Ghouta.

 

According to SOHR sources, the fight followed an attempt by a military group of “Al-Hamzat Division” to loot a shop owned by a person from Arbin area in eastern Ghouta. Al-Hamzat Division’s affiliates tried to take some foodstuffs from the shop for free, and when the salesman refused, they threw a grenade on the shop. The fight evolved to clashes with machineguns between the gunmen of eastern Ghouta backed by some members of Ahrar Al-Sham Islamic movement, on one hand, and members of “Al-Hamzat Division” on the others, near the road to Raju in Afrin city.

 

The fight resulted in the injury of eight persons, while a gunman from eastern Ghouta was killed. Another child was also killed after being hit with an indiscriminate gunshot during the clashes. Meanwhile, tension and widespread popular resentment is growing in Afrin, while the two sides on high alert.