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| 'Dozens burned to death' in Syria attacks on East Ghouta |
| 2018-03-24 |
| [Al Jazeera] Dozens of people, mostly women and kiddies, have been killed and 80 others injured after Syrian government forces bombed an underground shelter in Eastern Ghouta, according to rescuers and activists on the ground. Sources on the ground and rescuers from the Syrian Civil Defence, a volunteer rescue group also known as the White Helmets, said on Friday that at least 37 victims burned to death after air raids carrying napalm gas hit the shelter in the town of Irbin. "An air strike targeted one of the underground cellars in Irbin last night where between 117 to 125 people, mostly women and kiddies, were hiding," Izzet Moslemani, an activist in Eastern Ghouta, told Al Jazeera. Abul Yusr, an activist and citizen journalist in Irbin told Al Jazeera that the corpse count was 45, and that the air raid had hit two shelters connected to one another by a corridor, leading to one becoming completely destroyed. "The air strike entered through one shelter, where it went kaboom!and killed everyone in it. The fires spread through to the second shelter, which soon became totally engulfed in flames," Abul Yusr told Aljazeera. "Some people managed to escape the fire in the second shelter, but their injuries are quite severe." |
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