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Russian air strike kills 16 civilians in northwest Syria: monitor
BEIRUT, July 22, 2019 (BSS/AFP) – A Russian air strike on a market in
northwest Syria killed 16 civilians on Monday, a monitor said, in the latest
violence to plague the country’s last major opposition bastion.
At least 35 other people were wounded in the raid that hit “a wholesale
vegetable market in the town of Maaret al-Numan”, the Syrian Observatory for
Human Rights said.
BSS/AFP/FI/ 1325 hrs