Old woman killed, man wounded in Turkish-occupied Syria’s Afrin
AFRIN, Syria (North Press) – On Saturday, an old woman from the city of Afrin north of Aleppo, northwest Syria, was shot dead and a man was wounded during a quarrel in which machineguns were used.
Local sources in Afrin told North Press that at about 08:00 pm yesterday the 70-year-old Qadriya Abdurrahman, a resident of Afrin, lost her life after being shot at while she was standing in front of her son’s house in Maarate neighborhood in Afrin.
The sources added that Abdurrahman succumbed to injuries she sustained before arriving at al-Shefaa Hospital.
Social media activists said that the old woman was directly shot at by unknown people, while others denied the news and said that she was hit with stray bullets.
Hours before the incident, a man, who hails from Deir ez-Zor, was wounded during a quarrel between individuals, some of them operated for Hamza Division and some operated for Jaysh al- Sharqiyah, Turkish-backed factions of the Syrian National Army (SNA), in Ashrafiyeh neighborhood.
The clashing individuals used light machineguns, spreading panic and terror among residents of the neighborhood.
Afrin has been under the occupation of the Turkish forces and their affiliated Syrian opposition factions, also known as the Syrian National Army (SNA) since March 2018 following the so-called “Olive Branch” military operation to push away the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) under the pretext of protecting “Turkish national security.”
The operation caused the displacement of about 300,000 of the original inhabitants of the Kurds of Afrin who have been taking shelter in 42 villages and five camps in Aleppo northern countryside, locally known as Shahba region, since then.
Afrin and its countryside continue to undergo security chaos, killing and wounding dozens of people, in addition to the increasing numbers of human rights violations against civilians.