Action Group report death of 8 Palestinian refugees including mother and her child

The Action Group for Palestinians in Syria announced that six Palestinians were killed in Syria on Wednesday while a mother and her child drowned while trying to reach Greece in a boat.

The group said in a statement on Thursday that six Palestinians were killed in an attack by armed terrorists on a roadblock in Reef Damascus on Wednesday.

It said that in another incident Palestinian refugee Maha Al-Saadi and her child Abdulrahman drowned off the coasts of Greece after Greek coastguards forced a boat carrying refugees to return back to Turkish regional waters.