The head of the Syrian Arab Red Crescent has been killed on the road to Damascus, the Euronews TV channel reports on Thursday.
The International Committee of the Red Cross says his vehicle was apparently targeted on the highway between the capital and Idlib – a focal point of the Syrian conflict.
Syrian state television blamed “terrorists” for the death of Abd-al-Razzaq Jbeiro, saying that he’d been assassinated.
It comes as pressure increases on the United Nations to draft fresh sanctions against President Bashar al-Assad’s regime.
