Deadly Airstrike Targets Busy Market in Opposition-Held Northwestern Syria, Claiming Lives of 9 People

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JISR AL-SHUGHUR, Syria (AP) — An airstrike early Sunday over an busy vegetable market in northwestern Syria murdered at least nine individuals, activists and nearby first responders said.

Activists and Britain-based resistance war screen the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that Russia, a beat partner of Syrian President Bashar Assad, propelled the strike over the vital opposition-held town of Jisr al-Shughur close the Turkish border.

The strike comes a day after Moscow’s best hired fighter bunch briefly revolted against Russian President Vladimir Putin. Opposition-held northwestern Syria’s civil defense organization known as the White Head protectors said over 30 individuals were injured, and anticipated the passing toll to extend.

“We’re hearing that the fundamentally injured have been passing on after coming to the hospital,” Ahmad Yaziji of the White Head protectors told The Associated Press. “It was a focused on assault within the primary vegetable market where farmers from around northern Syria gather.”

Rescuers hurried the injured to the healing center in bloodied vegetable trucks, whereas activists shared critical calls for blood donations.

Beither Syria nor Russia commented on the airstrike, in spite of the fact that Damascus says strikes within the northwest area target equipped guerillas.

The Syrian pro-government daily paper Al-Watan, citing an unidentified security source, said that the airstrike focused on aggressors and a weapons warehouse. Northwestern Syria is generally held by the aggressor group Hayat Tahrir al Sham, as well as Turkish-backed forces.