Coalition strike ISIL held town… 106 civilians die – PB/TK
‘Coalition strikes kill 106 civilians’ in Al Mayadeen – AlJazeera / May 26 2017
At least 106 civilians, including 42 children, have been killed in a series of air strikes by the US-led coalition on an ISIL-held town in eastern Syria, according to a monitoring group.
The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) says the deaths resulted from air strikes targeting Al Mayadeen in the province of Deir Az Zor.
“There were two rounds of strikes: one at Thursday night and the second after midnight, targeting buildings housing families of [ISIL] fighters,” Rami Abdel Rahman, the SOHR’s head, told DPA news agency.
Abdel Rahman said most of those killed were Moroccan and Syrian nationals who had fled to Al Mayadeen from ISIL’s de-facto capital, Raqqa, in northeastern Syria.
The first round of air strikes reportedly killed 35 civilians.
The SOHR tracks developments in Syria’s conflicts via a network of contacts on the ground.
Colonel Ryan Dillon, spokesman for the US-led 68-member coalition against ISIL, told Al Jazeera that any loss of civilian life in the battle against ISIL is a “tragedy” and that the coalition tries to minimise civilian casualties.
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