BEIRUT – Two high-ranking officers in the Syrian army and an organizer of a charity group have been killed in a rebel attack in the rugged mountains north of Latakia.

Pro-regime outlets on Tuesday mourned the deaths of Ghassan Beshara and Mudar Ali Jouriah—identified either as generals or colonels—reporting the two had been “martyred” in an anti-tank guided missile strike on their vehicle outside the town of Atirah.

Ghassan Beshara who hails from the from the town of Rawda outside Banias. (Facebook/Martyrs of Tartous).

Mudar Ali Jouriah who hails from the town of Dreikish outside Tartous. (Facebook/Martyrs of Tartous).

The missile strike also killed Siham al-Shebel, a famed member of the “To Live Together” charity, and three others as the group was on a tour of the frontlines in the Jabal Turkmen Mountains near the Turkish border.

Siham al-Shebel handing out food to pro-regime soldiers. (Facebook/Syria Costal News Network).

According to a pro-Assad Facebook page page, the army officers and Shebel—who was also known by her moniker “Mother of the Soldiers”—had been “distributing food and clothing” to pro-regime troops in the flashpoint front.

The “Tartous Martyrs” page added that the rebel strike also killed Lieutenant Ajmad Sheikh as well as two other army soldiers, who remained unidentified.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights tracking developments in the war-torn country also covered the incident, saying that rebels had targeted a car north of Latakia, killing six people, including two colonels.

The rank of the two senior officers remains in question, with some pro-regime outlets identifying the dead men as generals. Pictures uploaded of the soldiers, however, show them bearing the rank insignia of a colonel in the Syrian army.

So far no rebel group has taken responsibility for the attack or uploaded a video of the guided missile strike.