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Syrian Observatory: US-led air strikes in Syria kill 10 civilians

Coalition attacks on Thursday, Friday reportedly killed civilians in the provinces of Deir al-Zor and al-Hassakah; in Douma, Syrian army strikes kill 16 civilians.

US-led forces which are bombing Islamic State militants in Syria killed ten civilians in two recent air strikes, a group monitoring the violence said on Saturday.

 

 

The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said seven civilians were killed when an air strike hit a gas plant near the town of al-Khasham in the eastern Deir al-Zor province on Friday, and three civilians were killed in an air strike on Thursday night in the north east province of al-Hassakah.

 

Reuters cannot independently confirm the reports due to security restrictions.

 

The coalition has been bombing Islamic State targets in Iraq since August and extended the campaign to Syria in September.

 

Coalition strikes against suspected Islamic State targets in the besieged Syrian town of Kobani continued on Saturday after fierce shelling by the insurgents hit the town center. Shelling continued after the two strikes, according to witnesses.

 

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Meanwhile, both the Observatory and local activist Hassan Taqulden reported that at least five Syrian government airstrikes on a rebel-held town of Douma have killed at least 16 people on Friday evening.

  

Taqulden said most of those killed were civilians. The Observatory said at least three children and one woman were killed. Both said the death toll was likely to rise because people were still buried under rubble.

 

Syria's military stepped up its shelling of Douma during the summer as part of its intensified battle to wrest back rebel-held towns around the capital, Damascus.

 

Close to 200,000 people have been killed in Syria's three-year civil war, according to the United Nations.

 


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