Civilian killed by stray bullet in Syria’s Deir ez-Zor

DEIR EZ-ZOR, Syria (North Press) – A civilian was killed on Tuesday during the funeral of militants of the National Defense Forces (NDF), affiliated with the Syrian government forces, who were killed in a village in Deir ez-Zor Governorate, eastern Syria.

A local source from Deir ez-Zor told North Press that a 60-year-old man named Mor’i Hassan al-Hamdoun was killed by a stray bullet while attending the funeral of the militants of NDF in the town of Hatla in the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor.

On Monday, the bodies of three NDF militants were found murdered with gunshot wounds in their posts to the east of the city of Deir ez-Zor.

The source added that al-Hamdoun was a civilian who was hit by NDF’s stray bullet and passed away in the past few hours.

By Saad al-Yaziji