Armenian wounded in Syria

An elderly Armenian was wounded during a shelling in Aleppo, Syria.

The rocket attack had targeted a car, with Garabed Hapeshian inside, reported the Kantsasar Armenian newspaper of Syria.

The Armenian man was transferred to a hospital, where the physicians assessed his condition as average.

To note, Armenian military serviceman Hapet Manoug Aprigian, 22, was killed during the recent military operations in Al-Zabadani, Syria. Aprigian was a soldier in the Syrian army.

Around 60 to 70 thousand Armenians lived in Syria before the start of the civil war in the country, and more than half of them resided in Aleppo.

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