Qamishli, Syria (AINA) -- According to the Assyrian website ankawa.com, a bus owned by the Ezla Bus Company, an Assyrian owned business, was attacked Thursday with gunfire near the Syrian capital of Damascus. Several persons were killed.

Qamishli is the largest city in the province of Hasakah.

The bus was on route fom Qamishli to Beirut when it was attacked on the Alnabuk Yabroud Road in Damascus.

Among the persons killed was an Assyrian women in her early twenties, named Nina Jamil Oshana.