Three people were killed by a suicide bomber in an attack on a memorial service in north-east Syria last Sunday. Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem II, the leader of the Syrian Orthodox Church, was at an event in the city of Qamshi to commemorate the massacre of Christians more than a century ago.
According to security services, Patriarch Aphrem was the target of the attack. The service was a memorial to the tens of thousands of Christians killed by the Ottoman army in 1915, a slaughter known as the Safyo Massacre.
