Unknown gunmen kill 3 civilians in Deir ez-Zor

DEIR EZ-ZOR, Syria (North Press) – Three people were killed on Saturday in Deir ez-Zor Governorate, eastern Syria, in different incidents by unknown gunmen

Local sources said unknown gunmen, riding a motorcycle, opened fire on Hamidi Muhammad, 41, when he was leaving the mosque in the area of al-Jazrat, west of Deir ez-Zor. 

They added that Muhammad was imam of the mosque. 

In the town Shumaytiyah, northwest of Deir ez-Zor, two gunmen shot to death Abdurrahman Ramadan, a local source said.

Another source told North Press that the 8-year-old child girl Hind Saleh al-Madid was killed by a gunshot while she was with her family in the farmland in the town al-Bogheliya, north of Deir ez-Zor.

By Omar Abdurrahman