Two Explosions Rock Kessab, Syria’s Armenian Village

Two explosions rocked the historically Armenia village of Kessab in Syria,   yesterday afternoon.

Kandzasar weekly reports that the shots were fired from the direction of the Turkish border. One of the missiles released from a Grad Field Rocket System exploded some fifty away from the Kessab Mosque and the other exploded a bock from the Holy Trinity Armenian Evangelical Church. One person was injured, there were no casualties.

The largely Armenian populated village had been speared the devastation of the Syrian war until 2014, when Kessab and its surrounding villages saw a multi-pronged attack by forces opposed to the Syrian government. It was reported that the attackers advanced directly from Turkish territory. Most of the Kessab population was evacuated in time.