SYRIA – The Syrian government artillery fire has killed nine people, including five children, in opposition-held Idlib province on Wednesday, responders said.
Sixteen others were injured when cluster munitions hit a school in Sarmin which was sheltering displaced people, according to the White Helmets.
The school was run by the United Kingdom (UK)-based humanitarian organization Syria Relief, which said two of the children who died were six years old. The others were nine, 11 and 13, it added.
Around 284,000 people have fled their homes, mostly in southern Idlib, as a result of the hostilities since Dec. 1, the United Nations said.
Over 370,000 people have been killed since an uprising against President Bashar al-Assad began in March 2011, according to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The monitoring group documented 11,215 deaths during 2019.(BBC)
