Jihadist groups hand over Syrian pilot body to military forces

Radical rebel groups [terrorists] have handed over the body of a slain Syrian pilot they had killed earlier to the the Syrian authorities, a monitor group reported on Sunday.

The body of Lt. Col. Nawras al-Hasan, who had been executed by the rebels when he parachuted his crashing warplane over a rebel-held areas east of Damascus last week, was delivered to the Syrian authorities, said the "Syrian Observatory for Human Rights".

Al-Hasan was executed by rebels from the al-Qaida-linked Nusra Front in the town of Jairud in the eastern countryside of Damascus.

The state news agency SANA said al-Hassan was on a training mission when his plane malfunctioned and crashed, after he ejected himself.

However, the rebels said they downed the plane...
  [Xinhua -china.org.cn]
3/7/16
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