The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

More than 72 people killed in the past 48 hours in the north of Homs, and the Russian warplanes re-strike areas in it

Homs Province:

The Russian warplanes carried out at least 9 raids this morning on places in Talbisah, the town of al- Ghanto and the village of Term’alah north of Homs, information reported the death of 3 civilians in al- Ghanto while others were wounded.

 

Violent clashes are taking places between the regime forces and allied militiamen against the rebel and Islamist factions around the city of Talbisah and the villages of Oyoun Hsein, al- Aamiriyya, al- Sa’an, Snisel and Jabourin in the northern countryside of Homs, amid low-flying of Russian helicopters in the clashing areas.

 

Sound of several explosions heard in the neighborhood of al- Zahraa, inhabited mostly by Alawites, caused by fall of missiles on the neighborhood.

 

The number of people who were killed because of the Russian airstrikes and the intense shelling by the regime forces on the northern countryside of Homs in the past 48  has risen to 72, including 31 children, a woman and 19 fighters from the rebel and Islamist factions.