Several More Civilians Killed in US Airstrikes on Refugee Camp in Eastern Syria

TEHRAN (defapress)- More civilians, including women and children, were killed in the airstrikes by the US-led coalition warplanes on Eastern Deir Ezzur, sources said.

News ID: 76252

Date: 17 March 2019 - 16:00

The US-led coalition fighter jets conducted attacks on the gatherings of the civilians in al-Baghouz farms in Eastern Deir Ezzur along the border with Iraq.

Several civilians, most of them women and children, were killed and wounded in the air raids by the US-led coalition, local sources in Eastern Deir Ezzur were quoted as saying.

The US-led coalition fighter jets had also pounded the besieged Al-Baghouz Foqani Town in Eastern Syria with phosphorus gas earlier this month.

"The US-led fighter jets hit Baghouz farms in Eastern Deir Ezzur with missiles containing white phosphorus substance," the Arabic-language media quoted local sources in Deir Ezzur as saying.

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