BEIRUT: Syria's opposition condemned on Tuesday the kidnapping of two Orthodox Christian bishops seized in the north of the country, and blamed the regime of President Bashar al-Assad for their capture.
"Efforts to uncover the identities of the clerics' kidnappers and to liberate them indicate that the Syrian regime is responsible for the kidnapping, and (the) killing of Bishop Yohanna Ibrahim's driver," said the National Coalition.
Ibrahim, the head of Aleppo's Syriac Orthodox diocese and Bishop Boulos Yaziji, head of the Greek Orthodox diocese in the same city, were kidnapped on Monday near the Turkish border, according to sources in both dioceses.
"The National Coalition denounces the kidnappings as well as all kidnappings and assaults against the civilian population, especially clerics," the umbrella opposition group said in a statement.
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