“It was indescribable, seeing the dead, the wounded,” he said, his hands still covered with the blood of casualties.Ī correspondent at the scene saw plumes of black smoke rising from the site and ambulances, their sirens wailing, rush the wounded from the market to hospital. “Russians shells rained on us,” he said, recounting that he was unloading tomatoes and cucumbers at the time of the attack. Saad Fato, a 35-year-old laborer who survived the strike on the market, said he helped efforts to try to rescue the wounded. Russian forces which back President Bashar Assad’s regime were responding to rebel drone strikes over the past week that killed four civilians including two children, according to the observatory. “These Russian strikes are the deadliest in Syria this year and amount to a massacre,” said Rami Abdel Rahman, who heads the Britain-based group Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. IDLIB: Russian airstrikes killed at least 13 people in rebel-held northwest Syria on Sunday, the deadliest attack on the war-torn country this year, a war monitor said.Īt least nine civilians, including two children, were among the dead, with most killed at a fruit and vegetable market in Jisr Al-Shugur in the Idlib region.
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