ERBIL — Kurdish security forces arrested three people suspected of involvement in the recent assassinations inside the notorious camp of al-Hol in northeast Syria, a human rights monitoring group said on Friday.
The arrests were made during a “large-scale” security operation launched by the internal security forces known as Asayish, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR).
According to the London-based watchdog, five people, including three Syrian women and two unidentified, have been killed since the beginning of June.
The camp is home to tens of thousands of Islamic State (IS) detainees, their families, and displaced Syrians, making it one of the largest and most dangerous camps in the world.
Sources said last Thursday that the Kurdish security forces had found a Syrian woman in a serious condition in the sixth section of Al-Hol camp in Al-Hasakah countryside. She was reportedly shot in the head by IS sleeper cells.
The section is dedicated to Syrian displaced families, SOHR said.