Syria: Govt Rockets killed 6, including two childrens
Syrian government rocket fire killed six civilians – including two children – at makeshift camps for displaced people in the country’s last major rebel-held bastion early on Sunday, a war monitor reported.
The victims had all been uprooted from their homes during Syria’s years of war, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an activist organisation with a broad network of sources on the ground.
It said that more than 30 rockets had exploded in several areas, including the camps, west of the city of Idlib in Syria’s northwest.
‘The children were afraid and began screaming. We didn’t know where to go… shrapnel was flying from every direction’, Abu Hamid, a camp resident said.
The Observatory said 75 people were wounded in the shelling and that they were in various conditions.
Graphic photos of the attack showed bloodied children lying in beds at a hospital run by the Syrian American Medical Society.
The Observatory also said shelling had continued at several locations in the area after rebels struck government targets in retaliation for the strikes.
An AFP correspondent saw flimsy tents destroyed and burned, blood stains and rocket debris at the scene.
At a nearby hospital, the correspondent saw the bodies of two young girls.
The last pocket of armed opposition to President Bashar al-Assad’s government includes large swathes of Idlib province and parts of the neighbouring Aleppo, Hama and Latakia provinces.
Syria: Govt Rockets killed 6, including two childrens
Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), headed by ex-members of Syria’s former Al-Qaeda franchise, is the dominant group in the area, but other armed groups are also active.
