North Press correspondent wounded in ISIS riot in Syria’s Hasakah
QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) – North Press Agency correspondent was wounded, on Friday, in the shoulder while covering the developments of the clashes erupted between the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and militants the Islamic State Organization (ISIS) on the outskirts of al-Sina’a prison in Guweiran neighborhood, in Hasakah, northeast Syria.
Yesterday, the ISIS militants launched an attack against al-Sia’a prison which turned into violent clashes and security alert in the area.
The SDF arrested about 110 ISIS inmates, who had managed to escape from al-Sina’a prison and returned them to one of its prisons in the area.
During the transformation process of ISIS inmates, the North Press correspondent, Jindar Abdulqader, was covering the issue and he sustained a shoulder injury because the car, which he was travelling on, suddenly stopped and he fell down of it.
SDF fighters hurried to take him to the nearest military hospital in the site.
Meanwhile, Hawar News Agency ANHA correspondent, Basel Rashid, also received two bullets, one in the chest and one in the abdomen, in addition to injuries in separate parts of his body due to shrapnel, whereupon he was transferred to the hospital.