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Dozens hurt, dead in airstrikes on Syria market

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Syrian opposition monitoring groups say airstrikes on a fuel market in a rebel-held village in northern Syria has killed and wounded dozens.

 

The Local Coordination Committees say Tuesday's airstrikes on Maaret al-Naasan were carried out by Russian warplanes and that they killed and wounded dozens of people.

 

Rami Abdurrahman, who heads the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said the airstrikes killed and wounded at least 35 people. He said the warplanes were believed to have been Russian.

 

The market is mostly sells diesel fuel brought from areas under the control of the Islamic State group. The airstrikes are likely part of a campaign to target the oil industry that is a major source of income for IS.

 

 

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