2 Armenians killed in Aleppo shelling

May 1, 2014 – 15:21 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net – 2 Armenians died as Armenian districts of Aleppo were shelled, with a 7th grade student Khazhak Zhakomchnyan injured, PerioNews reported.
On April 29, Raffi Hekimyan died of a gunshot wound; a Syrian army solder Armenian Willian Makaryan, 25, was killed in action on April 30.
At least 150,000 people have been killed in Syria’s three-year-old civil war, a third of them civilians, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Before the civil war, Syria was home to 80000 Armenians. At present, about 20000 left the country – mainly for Armenia, Lebanon and the U.S. About 100000 Armenians died in Syria during 3 years of war.