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Armed group kill woman in north Syria

19 September 2011 21:04 (UTC +04:00)

Baku-APA. An armed terrorist group killed a woman in the northern town of Maaret al-Numan when she tried to prevent them from kidnapping her son, Syria’s official news agency SANA reported Monday, APA reports quoting Xinhua.

The gunmen wanted to kidnap the son, a conscript of the Syrian army, in order to film him as a defector, leaving the woman killed in front of her house and her husband and son lightly wounded, SANA said.

Gunmen broke into the house of Abssya al-Jadi, 50, to kidnap her son, said SANA, quoting sources at Idlib province, adding that she was shot in the chest when she stood in front of her son to protect him from the gunmen’s shots.

Meanwhile, SANA said other armed terrorist groups attacked a number of schools in Idlib’s suburbs "to force students to leave" and terrorized teachers in order to hinder the educational process in the city.

In a related development, deputy director of the education department in the central province of Homs strongly denied as " absolutely baseless"what some "provocative" TV channels broadcasted that five students were killed in a school in Homs’ suburb.

In a separate incident, SANA said that four law enforcement- members were killed and 18 others injured in an ambush set up Monday by an armed terrorist group on the way back to their unit at el-Dahiriyeh crossroads in the central province of Hama.

Quoting an official source, the report said that gunmen opened fire at two buses carrying law-enforcement forces near the crossroads, totally smashing a bus.

All injured, who have gunshots in different parts of their bodies, were rushed to nearby hospitals, SANA added.