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Five nuclear engineers are killed in Syria

AtomInfo.Ru, PUBLISHED 09.11.2014

The unknown assailants killed five nuclear engineers in Syria Sunday while they were on a bus just north of Damascus.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights was unable however to say how they were killed or supply their nationalities.

"Unidentified attackers murdered five nuclear energy engineers who worked in the scientific research center near the neighborhood of Barzeh, northern Damascus," said Observatory director Rami Abdul-Rahman.

"It was not immediately clear whether the bus that they were traveling on was hit by a bomb, or by gunfire," Abdul-Rahman told AFP.

Topics: Security, Asia


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