24 Killed In Raids On Syria's Idlib: Monitor
Faizan Hashmi Published September 10, 2016 | 07:25 PM
BEIRUT, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News -10th Sept,2016) - Air strikes on a market in the rebel-held northwestern city of Idlib Saturday killed 24 people, a monitor said, a day after Russia and the US agreed a truce for Syria.
It was not immediately clear who carried out the raids that also hit several neighbourhoods in Idlib and wounded at least 90 people, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The Britain-based monitor could not immediately confirm how many of the casualties were civilians saying some bodies "were burned beyond recognition".
An AFP photographer in Idlib saw men clambering over rubble, in just slippers or sandals, to help evacuate wounded, dust-covered residents and children from a collapsing building. Others tried to lift a bloodied shopper who had collapsed on the ground as a fire raged in a nearby open-air clothes market.
A man, his hand pressing a bloodied wound on his hand, walked away clutching the hand of a barefooted boy. The raids also destroyed several shops and cars in the area. After marathon talks in Geneva, US Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said a ceasefire would begin Monday, the first day of the Muslim feast of Eid al-Adha.
If the deal is implemented, Syria's armed forces would stop air strikes on rebel-held areas and desperately-needed aid would reach war-weary civilians. UN investigators last week said aerial bombardment by Syrian forces and their Russian ally, namely in Idlib and Aleppo, were causing huge civilian casualties and destroying vital infrastructure.
Since spring 2015, most of Idlib province has been held by an alliance of rebels, Islamists, and jihadists known as the Army of Conquest.
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