BEIRUT: A cousin of Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad has shot dead a senior air force officer in a road rage incident in the Latakia coastal heartland of their minority Alawite community, a monitor said on Friday.Suleiman al-Assad, a first cousin once removed, killed Colonel Hassan al-Sheikh “because he overtook him
By our correspondents
August 08, 2015
BEIRUT: A cousin of Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad has shot dead a senior air force officer in a road rage incident in the Latakia coastal heartland of their minority Alawite community, a monitor said on Friday. Suleiman al-Assad, a first cousin once removed, killed Colonel Hassan al-Sheikh “because he overtook him at a crossroads” on Thursday evening, said Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
