1 Syrian refugee killed in Zaatari protest

One Syrian was killed and two hospitalized while 28 members of Jordanian security forces were injured during a protest inside Zaatari refugee camp in northern Jordan Saturday.

Accounts of the incident differ between Jordanian security forces and Syrian activists. Jordanian newspaper al-Ghad reports the shooter in the incident remains unknown, citing a Jordanian security source who reported a group of protesters had “attempted to attack security forces’ headquarters inside the camp.”

Meanwhile, pro-opposition Syrian news site Zaman al-Wasl reported that clashes began as a result of security forces’ “forbidding groups of young men and women who had been working on nearby farms to return to the camp.”

As a video circulated online depicts shouting protesters carrying a young man covered in blood, activists on the “Za’atari Coordination Committee” Facebook page reported protests escalated when security forces at the camp’s eastern gate threatened to “send two young women back to Syria,” sparking a massive protest in which security forces used tear gas and fired upon the protesters. By Syria Direct