What a horror. It is bad enough for one family member to be killed, but 14 from the same family!!!
Aleppo air strike kills 14 members of one family — rescue team
REUTERS | Published — Monday 17 October 2016
Members of the Syrian Civil Defense, known as the White Helmets, search for victims amid the rubble of a destroyed building following air strikes in the rebel-held Qatarji neighborhood of the northern city of Aleppo on Monday. (AFP / KARAM AL-MASRI)
BEIRUT, Lebanon: Fourteen members of the same family were killed in an air strike in rebel-held eastern Aleppo on Monday, emergency service workers said, as the Syrian government pursued its Russian-backed campaign to capture opposition-held areas of the city.
A list of the dead published by the Civil Defense included several infants, among them two six-week old babies and six other children aged eight or below. The Civil Defense identified the jets as Russian. The attack hit the city’s Al-Marjeh area.
The Civil Defense is a rescue service operating in rebel-held areas of Syria. Its workers are known as “White Helmets.”
The campaign has killed several hundred people since it started last month after the collapse of a truce brokered by Russia and the United States. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it had documented the deaths of 448 people in air strikes in eastern Aleppo since then, including 82 children.
Syrian and Russian militaries say they only target militants.
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Aleppo air strike kills 14 members of one family — rescue team
Aleppo air strike kills 14 members of one family — rescue team
REUTERS | Published — Monday 17 October 2016
Members of the Syrian Civil Defense, known as the White Helmets, search for victims amid the rubble of a destroyed building following air strikes in the rebel-held Qatarji neighborhood of the northern city of Aleppo on Monday. (AFP / KARAM AL-MASRI)
BEIRUT, Lebanon: Fourteen members of the same family were killed in an air strike in rebel-held eastern Aleppo on Monday, emergency service workers said, as the Syrian government pursued its Russian-backed campaign to capture opposition-held areas of the city.
A list of the dead published by the Civil Defense included several infants, among them two six-week old babies and six other children aged eight or below. The Civil Defense identified the jets as Russian. The attack hit the city’s Al-Marjeh area.
The Civil Defense is a rescue service operating in rebel-held areas of Syria. Its workers are known as “White Helmets.”
The campaign has killed several hundred people since it started last month after the collapse of a truce brokered by Russia and the United States. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it had documented the deaths of 448 people in air strikes in eastern Aleppo since then, including 82 children.
Syrian and Russian militaries say they only target militants.
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Aleppo air strike kills 14 members of one family — rescue team
