Young man opens fire on his family in Aleppo

A 18 year-old man from al-Bab city, Aleppo countryside, opened fire on the five members of his family while they were sleeping in one room, resulting in immediate death of his sister (21) and his brother (13), while the parents were admitted to the intensive care unit of the university hospital in Aleppo. His second sister escaped.

Preliminary investigations said the killer, a secondary school student, made his crime under the impact of drug pills. He claimed, upon investigations, that he committed this crime because of the bad treatment he used to receive from his father, SANA reported.