Summary Eight soldiers were killed when Syrian rebels shot down a military helicopter in the country's east.
BEIRUT (AP) - Activists say Syrian rebels have shot down a military helicopter in the country s east, killing eight government troops on board.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights on Monday posted a video online showing several armed men standing in front of the wreckage.
One of the fighters in the footage says it s a helicopter that the rebels shot down late Sunday in the eastern province of Deir el-Zour, along Syria s border with Iraq.
As the man speaks, the camera shifts to a pickup truck piled with bodies. The fighter is then heard saying that all of President Bashar Assad s troops who were aboard the helicopter were killed in the downing.
The Observatory, which relies on a network of activists on the ground, says eight troops were killed.
