(MENAFN- Jordan News Agency) Moscow, May 12 (Petra) -- A Russian soldier has died in Syria's province of Homs, a military source at the Russian Hmeimim Air Base said Wednesday in a statement.
According to the statement Anton Yerygin was fatally wounded in a shelling by militants in the Homs province and later died in a hospital. It said the shelling occurred as he was escorting a convoy of vehicles of the Russian Center for Reconciliation, whose task is to help cement a Russian- and U.S.-brokered cease-fire.
Yerygin is the ninth Russian serviceman who has died in Syria, according to Russian official statements.
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12/5/2016 - 10:42:40 AM
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