...An armed terrorist group on Friday afternoon assassinated the nationalistic opposition figure Mishaal Tammo and wounded his son Marcel and Zahida Rash Kilo.
Informed sources told SANA that four gunmen using a black car opened fire from machineguns on Tammo who was invited to lunch at a friend's in the western district of Qamishli city accompanied by his son and Kilo.
The attack led to the martyring of Tammo immediately, while his son was injured with a gunshot to the abdomen and Kilo was shot in the foot.
People in Qamishli said the assassination of Tammo aims at undermining national unity and civil peace.
Mashaal Tammo was an agricultural engineer who entered the political arena in 1990, establishing the Kurdish Future Party in 2005 with a group of others. He was against the calls by the opposition abroad for interfering in Syria's affairs and rejected the use of arms.
Tammo had continuously stressed the importance of national unity and comprehensive political, economic and social reforms. He left behind a wife and six son.