After less than 72 hours…warplanes commit a new massacre in Idlib countryside and kill and injure about 50 persons

Idlib Province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the warplanes carried out strikes after the midnight of Tuesday – Wednesday, through which they targeted places in Maarat Shurin town in the countryside of Maarrat Al-Nu’man city in the southern section of Idlib countryside, which resulted in a massacre killed more than 17 people including a man and his wife, another citizen woman, another man and his child, as well as 3 other children at least, and the total death toll also includes casualties of the displaced people of one family, while 31 persons at least were injured with varying severity, and the death toll is expected to increase due to the presence of injured cases in serious conditions and there is information about more casualties, and the strikes also caused great material damage and the destruction of many houses.

 

It is noteworthy that the warplanes carried out another massacre 3 days ago, in which the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published on Sunday the 17th of December 2017, that warplanes targeted areas in Khan Shaykhun city in the southern countryside of Idlib with about 15 airstrikes. The locals asserted to the SOHR that the airstrikes caused fires in the place where the shells fell, and left big numbers of martyrs and injured people, where 10 women and children are confirmed dead. The martyrs are a woman and her child from one family, 6 others from another family; they area a woman and 2 of her children and 2 sisters and another woman, in addition to a child, whether he belongs to one of the two families is not yet known, and the death toll is expected to increase due to the presence of several injured in serious conditions, where medical sources confirmed to the SOHR that most of the martyrs suffered burns due to the shells dropped by warplanes, while other injured people are still suffering of burn injuries.