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The assassination in Damascus was the second in two days. The brother of Syria's parliament speaker was gunned down on Tuesday. A prominent actor, a Syrian-born Palestinian who was an outspoken supporter of Assad, was found dead on Sunday. The family of Mohammed Rafeh said his body bore gunshot wounds to the head, neck and shoulder. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Rafeh was kidnapped Friday night in the tense neighborhood of Barzeh, which has been hit by fighting between rebels and government troops. The Observatory said Rafeh was killed for apparently giving information to the regime about rebels and anti-government protesters. In other violence, three people were killed and seven were injured in a separate attack in Damascus when a mortar round hit Al-Mazzeh district, SANA said. Al Mazzeh neighborhood is predominantly populated by Alawites, an offshoot of Shiite Islam that Assad and many in his regime belong to. The opposition and rebel forces are mostly Sunni Muslims.
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