Free Burma Rangers medic Zau Seng killed by mortar strike in Syria on daughter’s first birthday
- The Free Burma Rangers is a humanitarian organisation whose goal is to free the oppressed in Myanmar, Syria, Iraq and Kurdistan
- The group said Zau Seng was killed Sunday in a mortar strike by the Turkish army or their Syrian allies
Shelling by Turkey-backed opposition fighters killed a Myanmar national working as a cameraman and medic and wounded another Iraqi member of the humanitarian team in northeastern Syria where fighting between Kurdish fighters and Turkey-backed gunmen continued, the humanitarian group said.
David Eubank, a former member of US Army Special Forces and the founder of the Free Burma Rangers, said in a video that the attack Sunday occurred about 4km from the northern town of Tal Tamr. Eubank said the medic, Zau Seng, was hit in the head by shrapnel from a mortar shell that struck nearby as he was filming a video of the fighting.
“He died right away and we brought him here to Tal Tamr,” Eubank said in the video, which also showed one of the aid group’s armoured vehicles hit by shrapnel.
Eubank added that an Iraqi team member was also wounded in the mortar attack, which he blamed on the “Free Syrian Army and Turks”.
“Zau Seng was my brother and hero. He leaves behind a wife, Lunu, and daughter, who celebrated her first birthday today”.
