9 civilians killed in Syria due to regime bombing

Nine civilians were killed and dozens wounded on Sunday when rockets fired by Syrian regime forces hit makeshift displacement camps in northwestern Syria. Syriareported the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR).

At dawn, several rockets hit a camp and places where displaced people live in the Kafr Jales region, west of Idlib, an AFP correspondent on the ground confirmed. The attack left tents destroyed and burned, among bloodstains and pieces of rockets.

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Civil protection teams and groups of inhabitants helped the wounded and took them to nearby hospitals. There, the bodies of two girls lay on the ground, covered, the correspondent observed.

More than 30 rockets landed in various areas west of Idlib city, including camps, the NGO added.

“We were getting ready to go to work when we heard shots. The children were scared and started screaming. said Abu Hamid, 67, who lives in one of the camps.

“We didn’t know where to run. It was not one or two rockets, but ten “he added.

The shots occurred, according to the SOHR – a UK-based NGO that has a network of informants in Syria – a day after five members of the regime forces were killed in attacks by a group affiliated with the Hayat Tahrir al Sham (HTS) jihadists. ) in southwestern Idlib.

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About half of that province and neighboring sectors belonging to Hama, Aleppo and Latakia are controlled by the HTS group, a former Syrian branch of Al Qaedaand by other rebel factions.

Three million people live in that region, half of whom are displaced.

Since it broke out in 2011, the war in Syria it has killed nearly half a million people and forced several million from their homes.

Source: AFP

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