Several children killed in Turkish artillery attack in northern Syria, monitor says
Tuesday 03/December/2019 - 04:19 PM
Eight children were among 11 civilians killed Monday
in a Turkish artillery attack that hit near a school in a northern Syrian town
in Aleppo province, France 24 reported.
The shelling on Tal Rifaat, controlled by local
Kurdish fighters, took place as students were leaving the building and wounded
21 others, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Most of those killed in the attack were displaced
from the Afrin region which was captured last year by Turkish troops and their
Syrian proxies, Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman said.
Tal Rifaat, a strategic town located 20 kilometers
(12 miles) south of Turkey's frontier, is the site of regular confrontations
between Turkish-backed forces and Kurdish fighters.
