Foreign member of medic team killed in Syria's northeast

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Shelling by Turkey-backed opposition fighters killed a Burmese medic and wounded another Iraqi member of the humanitarian team on Sunday in northeastern Syria where fighting between Kurdish fighters and Turkey-backed gunmen continued, the humanitarian group said.

David Eubank, a former member of U.S. Army Special Forces and the founder of the Free Burma Rangers, said in a video that the attack occurred about 4 kilometres from the northern town of Tal Tamr. Eubank said the medic, Zau Seng, was hit in the head by shrapnel from a mortar shell that struck nearby as he was filming a video of the fighting.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition war monitor, also reported the death of the medic. Turkey last month invaded northeastern Syria to push out Syrian Kurdish fighters, who it considers terrorists for their links to a Kurdish insurgency inside Turkey.

 

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