More casualties in the massacre of Maarat Shurin raise the death toll to 19 casualties including 14 children and citizen women

Idlib Province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented more casualties due to the massacre carried out by warplanes that targeted a neighborhood in Maarat Shurin town in the countryside of Maarrat Al-Nu’man city after the midnight of Tuesday – Wednesday, in which the death toll has increased to 19 casualties they are 7 children, 7 citizen women and 5 men, and in the details obtained by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights; the casualties are 13 persons of one family they are; a man, his wife and two of their children, his brother and his wife as well as two of their children, in addition to their mother and their sister and her child, their brother’s wife and her child, and the rest of the casualties are two citizen women and a man who are displaced from Halfaya town in Hama countryside, a man and his child as well as another man, and the death toll is expected to increase due to the presence of more than 25 wounded including 6 cases at least in serious conditions.

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.