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Militant Fire on Aleppo Claims the Life of 7 Children

Militant Fire on Aleppo Claims the Life of 7 Children
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At least seven children were martyred on Sunday by militant rocket fire that hit a primary school in the government-held west of Aleppo city, state media said.

 

Militant Fire on Aleppo Claims the Life of 7 Children

 

State television initially gave a toll of 10 martyred, but the official SANA news agency subsequently said eight people had lost their lives, seven children and a woman.

According to SANA, citing police sources, the rocket fire hit a primary school in the Furqan neighborhood, also injuring at least 32 people.

The news agency reported additional militant fire on other parts of west Aleppo, which is regularly targeted by the opposition forces that hold the eastern part of the divided city.

The so-called "Syrian Observatory for Human Rights", a Britain-based monitor, gave a toll of eight children martyred, aged between six and 12.

Shortly after the attack, an AFP photographer at the school saw adults rushing children away from the building and trying to comfort crying infants.

State television showed some of the wounded being treated in a hospital, including a child in a blue top whose face was covered in blood being attended on a stretcher.

In a corridor, a young boy in a red T-shirt with his arm in a make-shift sling was shepherded by his distraught mother, as another boy with his head bandaged was carried in.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team

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