Seven aid workers killed in Sarmeen

Seven volunteers working with an NGO were assassinated at their compound at night in Sarmeen, Idlib, while they were sleeping. They died from gunshot wounds to the head and some media reports state that the perpetrators used silencers on their firearms. The bodies of the aid workers were found when the next team arrived at the compound for the morning shift. Means of attack recorded as shooting. Context raid. Source: Aid Worker Security Database, incident 2310.