DAMASCUS,(ST)_ Terrorist Abdul Hadi Mohamed Khalif acknowledged that , together with an armed terrorist group, he destroyed the national hospital in al-Qseir area in rural Homs through detonating improvised explosive devices planted in a tunnel they dug under the hospital , resulted in the martyrdom of several staff members and nurses in it.
In televised confessions to the Syrian TV on Saturday evening terrorist Khalif said he was born in al-Hamedia village of rural al-Qseir in 1989 and joined Muhannad Ghannoum terrorist group, nicknamed as ” Abu Bakr” who came from Baba Amr with 25 militants equipped with weapons , machine guns , launchers and other equipment.
Terrorist Khalif ” added that “Abu Bakr” planned digging the tunnel under the hospital from the house of a man from Harba family, at a length of 300 meters and in parallel tunnel was planted with explosives, detonated remotely .
He also admitted the abduction of 15 people from al-Oqerbia village and other 5 people from al- Ghassaniya village and transferred them to Firas Akkari house and knifed one of them, and stole two cars at Abele junction.
“We got weapons and money from a person named Dabah Ghannoum and his two sons. They had come from Lebanon.” The terrorist said.
Meantime, al-Qaeda affiliated al-Nusra Front terrorist group claimed responsibility for the terrorist attack which targeted al-Hayat hospital in the Municipal Stadium area in Aleppo on October 9th , 2012 , led to the deaths of more than thirty citizens and dozens wounded and heavy material damages in the Hospital , in the central hospital , a school and adjoining residential buildings.
A video aired by extremist sites linked to al-Qaeda organization showed stages of booby trapping a medium-sized truck designed to transport food by more than a thousand kilograms of explosives and the terrorist who carried out the attack.
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