BALADI NEWS
Five children aged between six and 13, were fatally injured when their school was hit by Assad's artillery.
News outlets reported four adults were also killed by the attack in Sarmin, Idlib.
Twelve children were injured by the bomb and among the adults injured were two teachers, one of who had to have a leg amputated.
Nine hundred and thirteen children are currently out of education because of the damage done to the Syria Relief school and the trauma they are suffering from the incident.
Eyewitnesses claim it was a cluster bomb that landed at 11.44 am on Wednesday, January 1, 100 meters from the school.
This is the sixth Syria Relief school to have fallen victims of military action since the start of the Idlib offensive on April 30, 2019. Syria Relief is the largest NGO provider of education in Syria, running 159 schools.
Another school operated by Syria Relief is currently in a state of suspension after it became a victim of bombardment due to airstrikes and tank shelling in the Ma’arrat al-Numan area of Syria on Thursday, December 19.
Syria Relief says that even home-based educational activity is currently impossible due to the scale of the offensive on Ma’arrat al-Numan.
Last year, Syria Relief distributed hundreds of millions worth of aid across Syria and helping approximately three million people in Syria.
Source: Denton Correspondent.