Seven White Helmet volunteers shot in the head at base

It is not known if the motive for murder of the Nobel Peace Prize-nominated rescue workers was political or criminal.

Seven members of Syria’s White Helmets rescue group have been shot dead in their base by unidentified attackers.

The killings happened in the jihadist-held northwestern town of Sarmin, six miles (9km) east of the city of Idlib.

The group, officially called Syria Civil Defence (SCD), was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize last year for its work pulling civilian victims of bombing in Syria out of rubble.

It was active in rebel-held eastern Aleppo before the territory was seized by forces loyal to President Bashar al Assad.

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