Monday, January 11, 2016

Air Strike by Suspected Russian Jets Kills 12 School Children in Syrian Town – Monitor

 
Reuters, 11/01 14:22 CET

AMMAN (Reuters) – An air strike killed at least 12 children in a Syrian rebel-held town in Aleppo province on Monday when it struck a school, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported.

The air strike on the town of Ain Jara, nearly 15 km west of Aleppo city, also killed a teacher, and there were reports of others wounded, some of whom were in critical condition, it said.

Social media footage released by activists showed large scale destruction of a building with a classroom with destroyed benches and textbooks lying on the floor stained with blood. The footage could not be independently verified by Reuters.

(Reporting by Suleiman Al-Khalidi; Editing by Hugh Lawson) 

Source: Euronews

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