SYRIA: UN monitors continue Syria mission despite vehicle attack in Khan Sheikhoun

Record ID: 280762

  • Title: SYRIA: UN monitors continue Syria mission despite vehicle attack in Khan Sheikhoun
  • Date: 17th May 2012
  • Summary: DAMASCUS, SYRIA (MAY 16, 2012) (REUTERS) UN MONITORS SEATED IN HOTEL LOBBY VARIOUS OF MONITORS WORKING ON LAPTOPS IN HOTEL LOBBY VARIOUS OF ITALIAN OBSERVERS IN ELEVATOR UN MONITORS SEEN BEHIND PICTURE OF SYRIAN PRESIDENT BASHAR AL-ASSAD AND HIS FATHER HAFEZ AL-ASSAD MONITORS SEEN THROUGH STAIRCASE BARS VARIOUS OF YEMENI MONITOR HOLDING MAPS VARIOUS OF OBSERVERS GET
  • Embargoed: 1st June 2012 13:00
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  • Location: Syrian Arab Republic
  • Country: Syria
  • Topics: Conflict,International Relations,Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA2A9HDTRB0GBN9XYVDWXXNHC0C
  • Story Text: The United Nations aims to collect a monitoring team from the Syrian town of Khan Sheikhoun on Wednesday (May 16), the head of the monitoring mission said, after they spent the night in the hands of rebels following an attack near their convoy.
    The Free Syrian Army said on Tuesday the monitors, whose cars were damaged in an attack which killed at least 21 people in Khan Sheikhoun, were under FSA protection.
    The head of the monitoring mission, Major-General Robert Mood, told reporters in Damascus they have spoken to them on the phone and were told they are happy where they are and they are safe.
    An FSA rebel in Khan Sheikhoun contacted by Reuters said the monitors were attending a funeral on Wednesday for people killed in Tuesday's violence.
    An internal U.N. document obtained by Reuters at the United Nations said that a total of six monitors were under rebel
    "protection" in a "friendly environment".
    Ahmad Fawzi, international mediator Kofi Annan's spokesman, said the U.N. convoy was hit by an improvised explosive device in Khan Sheikhoun on Tuesday.
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