Assad could have died in a plane crash - Reuters

Deposed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad could have died in a plane crash.

This was reported by Reuters with reference to sources, reports Ukrinform.

Two high-ranking army officers told the newspaper that Assad flew out of Damascus on Sunday to an unknown destination.

When the Syrian capital was captured by the rebels, a Syrian Air plane, which could have been Assad, took off from the Damascus airport, according to the Flightradar website.

At first, it flew in the direction of the coastal region of Syria, a stronghold of Assad's Alawite sect, but then turned sharply and flew in the opposite direction for several minutes, after which it disappeared from radars.

According to agency sources, there is a "very high possibility" that Assad could have died in a plane crash, as it remains a mystery why the plane made an unexpected U-turn and disappeared from radar.

The Prime Minister of Syria, Mohammad Ghazi al-Jalali, in his morning address, called for free elections and said that he does not know where Assad is.