Terrorists killed Syrian Red Crescent Official in Idlib

Head of the Syrian Red Crescent in the restive northwestern province of Idlib has been killed in a terrorist attack, SANA reported.

According to Syrian sources, Abdulrazak Jbero, president of the Syrian Arab Red Crescent branch in Idlib, was shot in the head in the Khan Skeikun area on Wednesday as he drove from Damascus to Idlib.

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has confirmed his death and severely condemned it.

“We just learned a few minutes ago of the death of Mr. Abdulrazak Jbero, head of the Syrian Arab Red Crescent branch in Idlib. Mr. Jbero was on his way by car from Damascus to Idlib. He was shot. Circumstances are still unclear,” Beatrice Megevand-Roggo, head of ICRC operations for the Near and Middle East, told Reuters in Geneva.

Jbero is the second ICRC staff to die in Syria since the beginning of unrest in the country ten months ago.

Last September, a Syrian Arab Red Crescent volunteer was killed in the crisis-hit central town of Homs after an ambulance came under fire, injuring three other volunteers.