Blast in Syria’s Idlib kills 12 civilians
At least 12 civilians were killed and another 25 injured in Syria’s Idlib province from a bomb attack on Saturday, according to the White Helmets Civil Defense.
Mustafa Haj Youssef, director of the White Helmets in Idlib, toldAnadolu Agency that a bomb-laden car exploded in front of a hospital in the city centre.
The blast also damaged nearby houses and vehicles, and the injured were transferred to hospitals in the region, Youssef added.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights which relies on a network of sources inside the war-torn country, put the death toll at nine, adding that the blast left 26 more people wounded.
Located in northern Syria near the Turkish border, Idlib has been declared a “de-escalation zone” last May, in which acts of aggression are expressly forbidden.
Syria has just begun to emerge from a devastating civil war that began in early 2011 when the Bashar al Assad regime cracked down on pro-democracy protests with unexpected ferocity.
UN officials say hundreds of thousands of people have been killed in the conflict.