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PRO-GOVERNMENT newspaper al-Watan fingered Israel yesterday after Scientific Studies and Research Centre research director Aziz Esber was assassinated on Saturday night.
The al-Watan website reported that Mr Esber and his driver had died in a blast targeting his car in Hama province.
There was no comment from Israeli or Syrian government officials.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that Mr Esber specialised in developing rocket systems at the centre’s Masyaf facility in Hama.
The US, Britain and France carried out joint air strikes against the centre’s Damascus facilities in April, following dubious allegations of a chemical weapons attack by government forces near the capital.
Israel bombed the Masyaf facility last month, raising the spectre of advanced weapons transfers to Lebanese resistance group Hezbollah.
President Bashar al-Assad insists his government got rid of all its chemical weapons in 2013, branding allegations of their use a pretext for invasion by outside powers.
