DAMASCUS, (ST) – Nine students and a teacher on Tuesday were martyred when terrorists fired explosive shells at Hussein Abdelrahman (al-Bteiheh First) School in al-Wafideen Camp in Damascus Countryside. “shells fired by terrorists on the school led to the martyring of nine students, one teacher, and injured 20 students, most of them in critical condition, noting that the shells hit a classroom while class was in session, A source at the Damascus Countryside Police Command said. “the attack on this school adds another crime to the black record of foreign-backed mercenary terrorists,” Educaiton Minister Dr. Hazwan al-Wazz told SANA, adding that terrorism will only make Syrians more determined to go on with their normal lives as the Syrians’ willpower is stronger than terrorism. |
“It’s a terrorist attack on educational institutions and on students,” Hassan Mohsen, head of the Quneitra education department, told the Associated Press.
Meantime, one armed terrorist group on Tuesday morning assassinated Syrian journalist Naji As ‘ad, who was shot by a sniper in the head in al-Tadamun quarter in Damascus while leaving his house to his work in Tishreen newspaper.
The late martyr journalist As ‘ad was born in Salhab town in rural Hama in 1951 . He holds a Bachelor in Arabic language literature . During his 30- year of hard work as an efficient journalist, martyr As ‘ad assumed several posts in the newspaper during which he excelled on all news desks.
Worthy mentioning that that terrorist groups also assassinated other prominent journalists : Ali Abbas , Shukri Abu Bulgur ,Basil Yousef , Mohammed Ashram and Maya Nasser and photographers Ihsan brown and Hatem Abu Yahya.
Earlier, scores of al-Qaeda affiliated al-Nusra Front terrorists were killed in Daraya during clashes with the armed forces. Among the killed terrorists were Youssef al-Hariri, Samer al-Fahel, Ahmad Majed al-Kurdi, Suleiman Kharouf and Abdul Wahab Murad.
Other al-Nusra Front member terrorists were exterminated in qualitative operations carried out by the armed forces in Aqraba, al-Zeyabeyeh and Hujeira , including Khalil al-Shamali, Ghassan Bram, Hassan Sulei’i, Abdul Menem Rashed and Yassin Khdeir .
Among terrorists killed in Duma, of the Eastern Ghouta were Rishdi Salameh and Mahdi Hilal, the two terrorists Fouad al-Bweidani and Yassin al-Hinish of the so called ” Banner of Islam ” group and terrorist Muhammad Kalash, nicknamed as Abu Kamal, leader of ” the capital Sheild Brigade” group.
In Qara city, all members of the ” Mountain Hawks battalion” terrorist group were killed or wounded, by the armed forces, including Nasser al-Haji and Ahmad Farhoud.
Heavy losses were inflicted upon the ranks of the terrorists of al-Qaeda linked al-Nusra front and their machine guns, automatic military rifles and weapons were confiscated.
Meantime, the army engineering units dismantled four explosives weighing between 30-50 kilograms in homes of residents near Imam Ali Bin Abi Taleb mosque in Erbeen town, in Eastern Ghouta, in order to detonate them by remote control, SANA reported.
In Idleb countryside, the armed forces, in a qualitative operation destroyed two cars fitted with machine guns and shelters for terrorists who were carrying out acts of murder and intimidation of citizens , blocking roads and looting and assault against Ein Sheeb village, where scores of al-Qaeda affiliated terrorists were left killed or wounded.
In Homs, the competent authorities killed all members of a terrorist group which tried to assault citizens and a checkpoint in al-Atefeyah town in al-Qseer countryside.
The competent authorities also confiscated a Mercedes car loaded with weapons on Homs- Damascus road at Shenshar area.
Three citizens were killed and others wounded , when terrorists targeted by mortars shelling al-Hwash and al-Nasereyah villages in rural Homs . Four members of the competent authorities were martyred while material losses in cars and houses were reported.
In tell al-Qabo of rural Hama, the competent authorities killed or wounded scores of terrorists while many others ran away . These al-Qaeda affiliated terrorist group was engaged in killing, looting near Jawhar farm on Mhardeh-al-Sqeilbeyeh road.
The most dangerous terrorist in the area Ibrahim Suleiman al-Khaleif was killed , an official source said.
It added that the army engineering unit defused
an explosive device weighing 15 kilograms planted by terrorists and intended to be remotely detonated at the crossroad of Bsherin village on Hama-Homs road. Also defused was a 4-Kg explosive in the southern quarters of al-Salameyeh city.
M.D/ ST