Yerakouyn.com: 20 of 38 Armenians who remained in Kessab were freed
Of 38 Armenians who remained in Kessab, 20 were freed, Yerakouyn.com reports, citing a source in Latakia.
The Armenian populated villages of Kessab in Syria were the target of three days of brutal cross-border attacks from Turkey. Some 800 Armenian families, the majority of the population of Kessab, were evacuated by the local Armenian community leadership to safer areas in neighboring Basit and Latakia.
Mostly old and immobile people remained in Kessab. Three Armenians were freed yesterday - Joseph Saghtjyan, 94, Hakob Ghazaryan, 85, and his wife Arpine Cholagyan, 73.