Third Iraqi refugee killed in Syria’s Hawl Camp since New Year

HASAKAH, Syria (North Press) – An Iraqi refugee killed by unknown individuals said to be agents of the Islamic State Organization (ISIS), yesterday, in Hawl Camp, east of Hasakah, northeast Syria, a security source of Hawl Camp said on Monday.

“The body of the 23-year-old Iraqi refugee Abdurrahman Muhammad Shebib was found in the first sector of the camp,” the source added.

“Shebib was killed with three bullets in the head and chest by unknown attackers said to be ISIS agents,” the source noted.

The victim, who hails from the Iraqi city of Ramadi, worked in installing tents in the camp. 

This is the third crime by ISIS agents in Hawl Camp since early January.

A nurse in the Kurdish Red Crescent was killed on Tuesday by unknown persons believed to be affiliated with the sleeper cells of ISIS in Hawl Camp. 

On January 1, the security forces found the body of unknown person shot with four bullets in the head near a mosque of Syrians in the fourth sector in the camp. 

The Hawl Camp, 40 kilometers east of Hasakah, is a house for about 15,250 families numbering 56,150 individuals including 2,423 families of dead and detainees of foreign ISIS militants of about 60 countries.

Reporting by Adnan Hamo