Beirut: At least 44 civilians, including five children were killed in Syria’s rebel-held Idlib province, in air strikes believed to have been carried out by Russia, a Britain-based monitor said on Friday.
“War planes, which are likely Russian, targeted the village of Zardana in northern rural Idlib overnight and caused the highest death toll in a single attack on the region including 11 women and six children,” Rami Abdulrahman, the director of the Britain-based war monitor said.
As per media reports, after the first attack in neighbourhood, the plane bombed once again, injuring four civil defence volunteers who were aiding victims at the scene.
The death toll may go up, he added. Rescue workers were still searching under the rubble for survivors.
Idlib remains the largest populated area of Syria out of the government’s control.
More than 350,000 people have been killed in Syria since protest launched against the Bashar regime in early 2011 turned into a civil war.
