Children among eight killed in Syria as missile hits school - It's Over 9000!

Children among eight killed in Syria as missile hits school

BALADI NEWS

At least eight people, including five children, were killed on Tuesday as missiles hit a school in northwest Syria sheltering displaced civilians, a monitor and opposition activists said.

The strikes targeted the village of Jobas near the town of Saraqeb in southern Idlib province, the last rebel stronghold in the war-torn country.

Syrian regime forces also besieged a Turkish observation post in the area but have not attacked it so far, opposition activists said.

The regime forces launched a wide ground offensive last week in the northwest, after weeks of bombardment that displaced tens of the thousands of people in Idlib province.

Opposition activists say more than 40 villages and hamlets are now under government control in southern parts of Idlib.

The UN estimates that some 60,000 people have fled from the area, heading south, after the bombings intensified earlier this month. Thousands more have fled further north towards the Turkish border in recent days.

Source: AlJazzera 

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