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Thursday 04 Feb 2016 - 10:47 Makkah mean time-25-4-1437
Daesh shelling in Syria kills Russian military officer (Image from Internet)
Moscow (IINA) – A Russian military adviser has been killed by mortar shelling from Daesh terrorist group in Syria, RIA Novosti News Agency reported Wednesday, citing the Defense Ministry.
"On February 1, in a mortar attack by Islamic State terrorist group on a military garrison deployed at one Syrian army compound, the officer was fatally wounded," the agency quoted the ministry as saying.
"The Russian military advisor went to Syria under the task of assisting the Syrian army in the development of new weapons supplied under existing contracts of interstate military-technical cooperation," the report said.
It said the officer was posthumously awarded, but didn't identify him or specify where the attack took place.
The military adviser is the third Russian officer to have been killed since Moscow began airstrikes against targets of the Islamic State in Syria in late September.
On its part, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the Wednesday's incident took place in the northwestern province of Latakia, where it says rebel groups fighting against the regime, but not Daesh.
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