Syria: US-led Strikes ’Kill 100 Raqqa Civilians’ in 48 Hours
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At least 100 civilians were killed over the past 48 hours by US-led air strikes in Raqqa, the claimed capital of Daesh [the Arabic acronym for the terrorist ‘ISIS/ISIL' group] in Syria.
On Tuesday at least 100 civilians had been killed since Sunday, with 55 civilians killed in the eastern neighborhoods of Bedou and al-Sukhani on Monday.
Meanwhile, the so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights [SOHR] put Monday's death toll at 42, including 19 children and 12 women, and said 27 were killed on Sunday - a two-day total of 69 people.
"The tolls are high because the air strikes are hitting neighborhoods in the city center that are densely packed with civilians," SOHR director Rami Abdel Rahman told the AFP news agency.
"There are buildings full of civilians that are trying to get away from the front lines.
"Coalition air strikes are targeting any building where any kind of [Daesh] movements are being detected."
Earlier this month, the charity group Doctors without Borders [MSF] reported that food and medicine needed to treat the wounded were in short supply.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team
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