18 killed in air strike in Syria
4 Sept 2012 2:35 PM IST
A Syrian warplane bombed a building in the northern rebel-held town of Al-Bab killing 18 people on Monday, a watchdog said, as Arab Gulf monarchies slammed Damascus for using heavy weapons against civilians.
With violence raging and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reporting more than 5,000 people killed across Syria in August alone, new international peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi admitted that his mission was ‘nearly impossible.’
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The air strike killed at least 10 men, six women and two children, the Britain-based Observatory said.
‘The victims included two children, a girl and a boy,’ Rami Abdel Rahman, director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, told AFP. ‘They died when the fighter jet bombed the building where they were sheltered.’ The army also pounded several districts of the nearby city of Aleppo, the Observatory said.
With violence raging and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reporting more than 5,000 people killed across Syria in August alone, new international peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi admitted that his mission was ‘nearly impossible.’
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The air strike killed at least 10 men, six women and two children, the Britain-based Observatory said.
‘The victims included two children, a girl and a boy,’ Rami Abdel Rahman, director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, told AFP. ‘They died when the fighter jet bombed the building where they were sheltered.’ The army also pounded several districts of the nearby city of Aleppo, the Observatory said.
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