Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
Leveler of Latakia...
has rubbed out a senior air force officer in a road rage incident in the Latakia coastal heartland of their minority Alawite community, a monitor said Friday.
Suleiman al-Assad, a first cousin once removed, killed Colonel Hassan al-Sheikh "because he overtook him at a crossroads" Thursday evening, said Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Assad "followed him, swerved the car around, got out and shot him dead", said Abdel Rahman, whose group has contacts across war-torn Syria.
He said tensions were running high among Alawites in Latakia, with some calling for Suleiman al-Assad, who has not been nabbed
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, to be punished.
The killer's father, Hilal al-Assad, a first cousin of the president, headed the defence forces in the Mediterranean city before his death in festivities with rebels in nearby Kasab in March 2014.