23 dead in Syria regime raids on IS-held town

July 14, 2015 04:54

At least 23 people, among them a child, were killed in government raids on the Islamic State group-held town of Al-Bab in northern Syria today, a monitor said.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said "container bombs" had been dropped on the town in Aleppo province from helicopters.

"Ten charred bodies have been found, taking to 23 the number of people killed in the bombardment," the Britain-based monitor's chief Rami Abdel Rahman said.

He added that it had been impossible to identify the 10 as they had been so badly burned.

A previous Observatory toll spoke of 13 dead, including seven women and a child, and 40 wounded.

One of the places hit in Al-Bab was a market selling petrol, the monitor said.

The Local Coordination Committees activist network had earlier reported charred bodies being recovered from the site of one of the strikes.

On Saturday, 34 people, most of them civilians and among them three children, were killed in similar regime raids on Al-Bab.

Syria's army has regularly targeted Al-Bab, which has been held by IS since early 2014, but the town has also been hit on occasion by US-led air strikes.

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