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| Boxing champion shot dead in Syria's Aleppo |
| 2012-03-12 |
| [Emirates 24/7] A Syrian boxing champion, Ghiath Tayfour, was rubbed out on Sunday in the northern city of Aleppo ...For centuries, Aleppo was Greater Syria's largest city and the Ottoman Empire's third, after Constantinople and Cairo. Although relatively close to Damascus in distance, Aleppans regard Damascenes as country cousins... , which has been largely spared the unrest sweeping the country, the state news agency Sana reported. An armed "terrorist group... targeted boxer Tayfour while he was passing near the courtyard of Aleppo University in his car," it said. "They opened fire on him and he was immediately martyred as five bullets entered his head." Tayfour was national boxing champion from 1984 to 1998, Sana said. |
| Posted by:Fred |