Fri 19 August 2022:
A missile attack on the town of al-Bab in northern Syria killed at least 14 civilians and injured scores more, according to an opposition war monitor and a paramedic group.
The Syrian Civil Defence, often known as the White Helmets, said five children were among those killed on Friday, while 30 people were injured.
The attack in the town, which is held by Turkey-backed opposition forces in Aleppo’s northeastern countryside, occurred just days after an air strike in Aleppo killed Syrian military and US-backed Kurdish militants. Turkey was blamed for the strike by Syria’s government.
Children among at least 14 killed in Syria missile strike
37 more people wounded in attack on northwestern al-Bab city.#Syrian pic.twitter.com/C6d7tUr3Lo
— INDEPENDENT PRESS (@IpIndependent) August 19, 2022
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Syrian government forces carried out Friday’s attack in retaliation for the Turkish raid.
According to the Observatory, at least 14 people were killed and 38 were injured in the attack.
A video shared on social media purportedly of the immediate aftermath of the attack showed pools of blood on the ground along with scattered bread and overturned fruit and vegetable boxes.
Turkey has launched three cross-border operations into Syria since 2016 and controls territory across the north of the country.
The violence in Syria, which started in March 2011, has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths and displaced half of the 23 million people who lived there before the war.
SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES
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