escaped

The woman and her son were not physically harmed during the incident and the man’s killer escaped.

He had escaped the first days of the unrest from Tartus city to his hometown village of Sheikh Saeed, 22 miles north of the Lebanese border.

Born in Grantown-on-Spey in 1894, he escaped the prisoner of war camp and eventually crossed the Atlantic to follow his golfing dream.

“The only reason I escaped was I managed to convince them I was Sunni and not an Alawite,” he said.

A fourth person in the group reportedly escaped the disaster.