Hours on Aleppo’s University Massacre: Twin Blasts Hit Idleb

Local Editor

Twin car bombs killed at least 22 people in the Syrian city of Idlib Wednesday, as universities nationwide held a day of mourning for 87 people who died in explosions at the University of Aleppo the day before.

The bombings in Idlib had the hallmarks of an operation staged by al-Nusra Front extremist group.

"The first explosion took place in Al-Ziraa Square and the second explosion took place in Al-Mutlaq Square, killing 22 civilians and wounding 30," the state-run SANA news agency said, blaming terrorists for the blasts.
Meanwhile, it added that "a unit of the Armed Forces destroyed two booby-trapped cars driven by suicide terrorists in Idlib-Al-Mastoumeh Highway in Idlib countryside."

SANA quoted a source as saying that "the two cars were set to attack citizens and law-enforcement forces."
In parallel, the Syrian Foreign Ministry urged the UN and the UN Security Council member states to condemn the terrorist crimes in Syria, including the massacre committed against Aleppo University students, employees and citizens who took refuge there.
Addressing two identical letters to the President of the UN Security Council and the UN Secretary General, the ministry said that the victims of the terrorist attack against the University of Aleppo are students who were on their first day of exams and they have no guilt but that they are continuing their educational attainment and prepare themselves to take part in their country's progress and building its future.

The letters noted that the aggression on Aleppo University was not the first of its kind against educational institutions as those criminals destroyed more than 2362 schools and killed dozens of innocent children and teachers inside them.
Syria further accused some parties, particularly in western countries, of claiming to combat terrorism in Mali while they support this terrorism and the same terrorist groups in Syria.

"The campaign against Syria is carried out in cooperation with media institutions which received calls from some western and Gulf countries to perform immoral mission and mislead the Syrians and the international public opinion regarding the events in Syria and falsifying facts," the letters read.


Source: News Agencies, Edited by moqawama.org