A drone assault on a army faculty in Syria’s Homs province throughout a commencement ceremony has killed as many as 80 folks and wounded 240 others, the Syrian well being minister has mentioned, Al Jazeera reported.
Health Minister Hassan al-Ghabash mentioned that civilians, together with six kids, and army personnel had been amongst these killed. There had been considerations that the dying toll might rise additional as lots of the wounded had been in severe situation.
There was no speedy declare of duty for the assault.
The nation’s army mentioned drones laden with explosives focused the ceremony on Thursday because it got here to an finish. In a press release, the army accused fighters “backed by known international forces” for the assault.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres “expressed deep concern” on the drone assault in Homs in addition to “reports of retaliatory shelling” in northwest Syria, his spokesperson Stephane Dujarric mentioned.
Syria’s defence minister attended the commencement ceremony however left minutes earlier than the assault.
“After the ceremony, people went down to the courtyard and the explosives hit. We don’t know where it came from, and corpses littered the ground,” mentioned a Syrian man who had helped arrange decorations on the ceremony.
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