An Armenian teenager named Grigor Minasian was killed in Aleppo, Syria, Arevelk reports.

Minasian got killed inside his apartment as armed militants were shooting from the outside.

He will be buried on Saturday, July 16 near Aleppo’s Surb Astvatsatsin church.

40 people were killed in a rebel mortar attack on Aleppo on July 8, with two Armenians – Hripsime Ghazarian and Sosi Ghazarian-Hekimian – among the 250 wounded.

The majority of the victims were children.

The armed militants in Syria on July 13 launched a rocket attack on an apartment in front of the Surb Astvatsatsin Armenian church of Aleppo.

The apartment was destroyed, but the church suffered no major loss - only the windows of the building shattered, Kantsasar newspaper reports.