Museum volunteers don black armbands to honor al-Asaad

(ANSA) - Rome, August 24 - Volunteers from an NGO dedicated to keeping retired people active and working at museums and cultural associations throughout the country donned black armbands Monday to honour Khaled al-Asaad, the veteran Palmyra archeologist beheaded by Islamic State (ISIS) militants last week. "The barbaric killing of al-Asaad is a tragedy for his country - Syria - but also a terrorist act carried out against world culture," said Association for Active Ageing (AUSER) president Enzo Costa.