SULAIMANI (ESTA) — At least nine civilians were killed on Sunday after Russian jets bombed camps near Syria’s northwestern city of Idlib, according to rescuers and witnesses at the site.
Warplanes aided by Syrian army artillery together dropped bombs on forests near the makeshift camps west of Idlib, witnesses said.
The attack by the Russian jets targeted camps near Syria’s northwestern city of Idlib, killing at least nine civilians in a flare-up of attacks on the last opposition-held bastion, witnesses and rescuers said.
No immediate comment was available from Russia or its allies in the Syrian army.
The civil defense service belonging to the opposition said three children and a woman were among those killed in the strikes in the crowded camps.
Moreover, 70 people were wounded as well in the attacked site and were rushed to field hospitals.
“There are no military bases or warehouses or rebel barracks here. Only civilians,” Seraj Ibrahim, a rescuer with the Western-backed White Helmets organization, told Reuters by phone.
More than 4 million people live in the densely populated opposition-held northwest area along the Turkish border. Most of them were driven there by successive Russian-led campaigns that regained territory seized by rebels.
