Red Crescent loses 31 volunteers during Syria's deadly conflict

Email|Print|Comments       twitter     facebook     Sina Microblog     reddit    

DAMASCUS, Nov. 5 -- The Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC) declared Tuesday that 31 of its workers had lost their lives during the country's long-lingering conflict.

In a statement, SARC said the last staffer was killed a day earlier while transporting an injured person in the countryside of Syria's capital Damascus.

Hassan Saleh Barakeh, the head of the Irneh suburb branch, was gunned down by a sniper shot while attempting to rescue an injured person from Irneh, the statement said, adding that Barakeh was driving an ambulance that holds the emblem of SARC.

SARC, which has recently put the death toll among its volunteers at 22, said in its statement that it had updated the casualty toll after reviewing the records of its volunteers in sub- branches in al-Rastan and Talbiesh areas in the central province of Homs.

It said those sub-branches had been out of connection, apparently due to their location in troublesome areas in Homs.

The country's deadly conflict has spared no aspect of activities without leaving scares, including the humanitarian field.

The International Committee of the Red Cross has recently felt the chill down its spine when some of its staff members were snatched in rebel-held areas in northern Syria.

The Syrian government, while accusing the Western-backed rebels of hindering humanitarian activities nationwide, stressed Monday that it would do its utmost to facilitate the humanitarian work across the war-torn country.

We Recommend

• Fire guts 22-storey Nigeria commercial building in Lagos
• U.S. Navy Carrier Strike Group stages military exercises
• Volkswagen showcases new energy vehicles in Beijing
• How should we get married nowadays?
• Commentary:
  Stop Phubbing
• Jakie Chan sees Rubber Duck off in Beijing
• Hello! Horror Halloween Celebration!
• The catwalk to the world of fashion
  
• Cruise trip to Taiwan