The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Strikes of the International Coalition kill medical staff and citizens in the eastern country of Deir Ezzor

Deir Ezzor province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: 8 citizens including 5 persons of a medical staff were killed as a result of bombing by International Coalition at the night of Thursday the 8th of June 2017, where the warplanes targeted an area of a field hospital and a mosque in Jdid Ekydat town in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, and the death toll is expected to rise because there are some people in critical situation, also the “Islamic State” organization shelled after midnight of yesterday mortar shells on places in the vicinity of Bahrat Afra area in al-Qosur neighborhood, which is under the control of the regime forces, and wounded several persons, also clashes took place after the midnight of yesterday between the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them against the “Islamic State” organization in the vicinity of the Panorama roundabout, in renewed attempts by the organization to advance towards sites of the regime forces, accompanied by intense shelling by the regime forces on the clash areas, amid bombing by warplanes on areas in the neighborhoods of Al-Hamidiyyeh and Al-Ommal and the vicinity of both the Panorama and Deir Ezzor airbase.