More barrel bombs dropped on innocent people, including children.
Syria bombs ‘market’
37 people including 10 children killed
Thursday, June 04, 2015
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BEIRUT: At least 37 people, including 10 children, were killed in government barrel bomb attacks in northern Syria on Wednesday, a monitoring group said.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the deaths came in three incidents, in Aleppo province in the north of the country and Idlib province in the northwest.
In Tal Rifaat in Aleppo, 16 people were killed, including eight children, when government helicopters dropped at least four barrel bombs, the Britain-based monitor said.
In the rebel-held neighbourhood of Jubb al-Qubbeh in east Aleppo city, nine civilians were killed, among them two children, when a barrel bomb struck the residential area.
And in Idlib province, eight members of one family were killed in a barrel bomb attack in the town of Kafr Sijna.
The Observatory, which relies on a network of sources on the ground, said the tolls in the incidents were expected to rise because of the number of people seriously wounded. Regime barrel bombs — crude weapons made of containers packed with explosives — have often struck schools, hospitals and markets in Syria.
Rights groups criticise them as indiscriminate, saying they kill a disproportionate number of civilians.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has denied that his forces use the weapons, but evidence collected by activists and rights groups includes footage of the barrels being pushed from army helicopters.
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Syria bombs ‘market’
37 people including 10 children killed
Thursday, June 04, 2015
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BEIRUT: At least 37 people, including 10 children, were killed in government barrel bomb attacks in northern Syria on Wednesday, a monitoring group said.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the deaths came in three incidents, in Aleppo province in the north of the country and Idlib province in the northwest.
In Tal Rifaat in Aleppo, 16 people were killed, including eight children, when government helicopters dropped at least four barrel bombs, the Britain-based monitor said.
In the rebel-held neighbourhood of Jubb al-Qubbeh in east Aleppo city, nine civilians were killed, among them two children, when a barrel bomb struck the residential area.
And in Idlib province, eight members of one family were killed in a barrel bomb attack in the town of Kafr Sijna.
The Observatory, which relies on a network of sources on the ground, said the tolls in the incidents were expected to rise because of the number of people seriously wounded. Regime barrel bombs — crude weapons made of containers packed with explosives — have often struck schools, hospitals and markets in Syria.
Rights groups criticise them as indiscriminate, saying they kill a disproportionate number of civilians.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has denied that his forces use the weapons, but evidence collected by activists and rights groups includes footage of the barrels being pushed from army helicopters.
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