A Syrian fighter who appeared in a gruesome video cutting out the heart of a regime soldier and eating it has been shot dead by rival rebels, a monitoring group said, according to AFP.
Known by his nom de guerre Abu Sakkar, the rebel reportedly joined the Al-Qaeda-affiliated Nusra Front about a year ago, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Rival rebels "assassinated Khaled al-Hamad, who was known as Abu Sakkar and who was a military commander in the Nusra Front, by gunning him down" in the northwestern province of Idlib, the Observatory said late on Tuesday.