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Updated at 7.30pm
AN AIRSTRIKE HAS hit a crowded refugee camp in Syria close to the border with Turkey, killing at least 28 people, according to Syrian pro-opposition activists.
Images posted on social media said to be of the aftermath of the strike showed at least a dozen tents burned to the ground and bloodied women and children being loaded onto a pickup truck.
The camp in Sarmada, in rebel-held territory in the northwestern Idlib province, is home to between 1,500 and 2,000 internally displaced people who fled the fighting from the surrounding Aleppo and Hama provinces over the past year, according to a local activist.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 28 died while the Local Coordination Committees, another activist group, said more than 30 were killed.
Footage on social media showed charred bodies and men pouring buckets of water on fires that erupted within the camp.
The attack came just hours after a twin bombing in the central province of Homs killed at least 10 people and wounded scores, state media and the regional governor, Talal Barrazi, said.
A car bomb first exploded in the main square of the village of Mukharam al-Fawkani, located about 45km east of the central city of Homs, Syria’s third largest.
As people gathered to help the victims, a suicide bomber riding a motorcycle detonated his explosives belt nearby.
Four children and three women were among those killed, Syrian state TV said, and as many as 49 were wounded in the attack.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility but the Islamic State group has claimed to be behind several similar deadly attacks in Homs province.
The area of the blasts is close to where Syrian troops and IS gunmen have been fighting for control of the vital Shaer gas field, which fell to the Islamic State yesterday after the extremists overran 13 government checkpoints and captured a Syrian soldier.
The Observatory said 34 government troops and 16 militants have been killed in three days of fighting there.
Aleppo
Meanwhile, relative calm prevailed in the northern city of Aleppo, which has been the centre of violence in recent weeks following a truce announced yesterday by US officials in agreement with Russia, in an effort to extend Syria’s fragile cease-fire to the deeply contested city.
The Syrian military said the truce would last only 48 hours.
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We can comment on this but we are not allowed to say what we want went a well off td applies for legal aid and a 16 gets sent to jail for the Jobstown protest, great to see free speech is still alive and kicking.
Two very different scenarios Jonathan.
The truth about Syria, watch it; https://rtd.rt.com/films/in-the-name-of-the-profit/
Let’s start#jobstown 16
As opposed to western media being deliberately biased towards western propaganda Stephen?
What I find hard to fathom is how there is no concrete evidence being shown on what aircraft, if any, were in that area. It is impossible that any plane could move around Syrian airspace without being tracked or picked up on radar.
Looks like Paul M has a bunny boiler on his hands……
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RT one of the only stations were you might hear some truth as opposed to CNN or our own dumbed down, biased state propaganda machine that is RTE.
All news stations are biased in some way.
They are incredibly strong tent supports….still standing after an air strike?
Mortar strikes by terrorists the likely culprits, they have a history of committing atrocities and blaming the Government forces through powerful western media propaganda outlets.
Mick…are you coming round on Syria?
I don’t think this was a mortar strike, the damage is too heavy. Here’s video filmed seconds to minutes after the attack on the refugee camp, warning it’s very graphic:
David..just watched it thanks…i cant tell..pretty big..truck bomb? The wahabbis are fond of them…either ways its an atrocity..air strike or suicide bomb.
Peter, when there are literally hundreds of witnesses reporting that it was an airstrike, why do you take it on yourself to suggest it was a mortar or truck bomb attack??
Richie,David and Mick Jordan on the same story…what are the odds against that?
Note…Either way…it was an atrocity…
“Rescue worker” in the picture seems happy enough about it
You spoke to him did you ? Because you can’t tell from the photo
If I had, I would have stated the he “is” or “is not”
I clearly said “seem’s”
Seem –
1.
give the impression of being something or having a particular quality.
I formed my impression from the look on his face and his thumbs up
Well Turkey has de-stabilized Syria; https://rtd.rt.com/films/in-the-name-of-the-profit/
You’re posting an article from RT about Turkey?
Seriously, you need to work on your sources mate. That’s the equivalent of posting a KNCA article about America and accepting that as fact.
Jason…Russia is only too keen to score one on Turkey since the shoot down in december…they wont score an own goal by running with a phoney story.
The sohr appears in all of Syria related stories and the comments are always dismissive of the reports. The sohr are not the only source reporting this. It has happened so let’s not be dismissive due to limited reporting.
Tony, you are right, but over-reliance on the non-credible SOHR has made people very sceptical. Dreadful tragedy
So why use your man in England as a source then, its pathetic that so called media outlets use some lad whose main source is tweets as fact and he’s not even in the country.
Agreed. Unfortunately media outlets are more and more grabbing from a source then continuing to trust it. Wreckless and lazy tbh.
Russia doesn’t give a shit
Famous Russian composer held a classical orchestra in the ruins of Palmyra today, a very special place that isis tried to destroy and isis murdered the aged Curator of Palmyra. Saw a clip on Tv, very moving. I look forward to the restoration of this ancient city. Today was a day of hope and triumph over despair.
A day of hope? – “Dozens reported killed as airstrike hits Syrian refugee camp”
Well said Greg…i saw it advertised on RT..
Greg…just saw a clip from palmyra on France 24…the symphony orchestra were set up in front of the plinth where the 24 Syrian army prisoners were ritually shot by Sunni teenagers…macabre imagery..
This is tragic. This should not be happening. RIP to all :-(
Who says it was an airstrike; the sohr, eliot higgins, john kerry? What I see here are burning tents that could have just as likely been caused by an exploded munitions dump in an al nusra front rebel camp, I’d think.
Besides, where’s the western ‘outrage’ at the multiple ceasefire breaches by the islamist terrorists against the syrian people in govt. held areas.
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