Doctors Without Borders Surgeon Killed in Syria

by Gary Kopycinski on September 6, 2013

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SYRIA—(ENEWSPF)—September 6, 2013. A Syrian surgeon working for Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), Dr. Muhammad Abyad, has been killed in northern Syria. His body was found on Sept. 3 in Aleppo province. He was 28 years old.