Airstrikes Kill Over Dozens In Syria’s Idlib Markets
KABUL: (MEP) At least 50 people have been killed and many others wounded in air strikes on a vegetable market in opposition-held northwest Syria on Tuesday, activists said.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 43 died in Maarat al-Numan and another seven in nearby Kafranbel.
“We have more than 20 cars that have been moving dead and injured to hospitals in the area,” said Ahmad Sheikho, a member of the civil defense corps, a rescue service operating in opposition-held territory.
“The air strike at the central vegetable market in (Maarat al-Numan) was around noon. Another strike at the same time hit Kafr Nubl’s own market,” Sheikho said
Women and children were among dead and injured.
The strikes were among the deadliest since a ceasefire took effect in Syria at the end of February, according to local sources.
Escalating violence in the country in recent days has left a seven-week partial truce on the verge of collapse.
The opposition’s Higher Negotiations Committee (HNC) announced its delegation was leaving Geneva because no advances were made in the talks.
The Syrian military could not immediately be reached for comment, and state news agency SANA made no mention of air strikes in Idlib.
