Syria air strike kills 13 civilians
01:15PM Thu 4 Sep, 2014
Beirut: A Syrian government airstrike hit a bus carrying civilians in eastern Syria on Wednesday, killing at least 13 people, most of them children, opposition activists said.
But the government in the capital, Damascus, blamed Isil for the incident, describing it as “yet another massacre” committed by the extremist group.
Activists said the aircraft-fired missile struck the bus in the village of Shoula as it was travelling to Damascus from the eastern Deir Al Zour province.
The civilians on the bus were the latest victims in Syria’s civil war, which is now in its fourth year and which has killed more than 190,000 people, according to the United Nations.
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