Terrorist groups assassinated Father Frans Van der Lugt in Bustan al-Diwan neighborhood in Old City of Homs. A source in Homs province told the state news agency that terrorists opened fire on Father Frans at the Monastery of Jesuit Fathers in the aforementioned neighborhood, which led to his death at once. A gunman in Syria's central city of Homs shot and killed well-known Dutch priest Frans van der Lugt on Monday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, AFP reported.