A car bomb exploded outside a relief centre in north-west Syria on Thursday (May 3rd), killing at least two people including an employee of the International Rescue Committee (IRC), AFP reported.
The blast hit close to an IRC centre that provides assistance to displaced Syrians in the area of Dana in the north-western province of Idlib, the organisation said.
An IRC security guard, Abdulqadir Saeed al-Ghafri, was among the dead. The 38-year-old was married with four children and had himself been displaced from the northern city of Aleppo.
"This terrible incident is a stark reminder of the great risk taken by IRC staff and other aid workers to help the Syrian people," IRC Middle East director Mark Schnellbaecher said.
"Aid workers are not, and must never be, a target," he said.
