44 dead in suspected regime strikes on Syria markets: monitor

April 19, 2016 22:16

Suspected government air strikes today killed at least 44 civilians at two markets in a part of northwestern Syria controlled by the war-torn country's Al-Qaeda affiliate, a monitor said.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights described as a "massacre" the strikes on a vegetable market in Maaret al-Numan that killed at least 37 civilians and at least another seven at a fish market in nearby Kafranbel.

Previously, the Britain-based monitor had put the toll in Maaret al-Numan at five dead and dozens wounded.

The two locations, both in Idlib province, are only about 10 kilometres (six miles) apart.

Both under the control of Al-Qaeda's Syrian offshoot Al-Nusra Front, which like the jihadist Islamic State group is excluded from a ceasefire agreed between mainstream rebels and the regime of President Bashar al-Assad.

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