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A British man who went to Syria to fight Islamic State has been killed in Raqqa, the terrorist group’s former capital, Kurdish sources have confirmed.
Oliver Hall, 24, from Portsmouth, was in the city helping to clear mines with the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG). Multiple sources with close links to the YPG confirmed his death to the Guardian.
According to one YPG source, Hall was killed on Saturday while trying to save a young boy who had strayed into a building rigged with Isis booby traps, as his unit – an all-foreign team of about 15 fighters – chaperoned a group of civilians back to their homes.
“Two little boys among the civilians entered a building which was known to have been trapped before,” the source said. “So Oliver entered the building to take the children out. He led one of the boys out and ran back to save the other. That’s when the booby trap detonated, killing Oliver.”
Both children survived, according to the YPG.
In the six weeks before his death, Hall had been in Raqqa, which the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces – of which the YPG is the majority component – declared fully liberated last month, clearing mines to make way for displaced civilians to return to their homes.
British man who went to fight Isis in Syria killed in Raqqa
That is horrific.
Oliver Hall, 24, from Portsmouth, was in the city helping to clear mines with the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG). Multiple sources with close links to the YPG confirmed his death to the Guardian.
According to one YPG source, Hall was killed on Saturday while trying to save a young boy who had strayed into a building rigged with Isis booby traps, as his unit – an all-foreign team of about 15 fighters – chaperoned a group of civilians back to their homes.
“Two little boys among the civilians entered a building which was known to have been trapped before,” the source said. “So Oliver entered the building to take the children out. He led one of the boys out and ran back to save the other. That’s when the booby trap detonated, killing Oliver.”
Both children survived, according to the YPG.
In the six weeks before his death, Hall had been in Raqqa, which the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces – of which the YPG is the majority component – declared fully liberated last month, clearing mines to make way for displaced civilians to return to their homes.
British man who went to fight Isis in Syria killed in Raqqa
That is horrific.
