“It was a targeted attack in the main vegetable market where farmers from around northern Syria gather.”įarmers rushed the wounded to the hospital in bloodied vegetable trucks, while activists shared urgent calls for blood donations. “We're hearing that the critically wounded have been dying after reaching the hospital,” Ahmad Yaziji of the White Helmets told The Associated Press. Opposition-held northwestern Syria's civil defense organization known as the White Helmets said over 30 people were wounded, and expected the death toll to increase. The strike comes a day after Moscow’s top mercenary group briefly revolted against Russian President Vladimir Putin. JISR AL-SHUGHUR, Syria (AP) - An airstrike early Sunday over a busy vegetable market in northwestern Syria killed at least nine people, activists and local first responders said.Īctivists and Britain-based opposition war monitor the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that Russia, a top ally of Syrian President Bashar Assad, launched the strike over the strategic opposition-held town of Jisr al-Shughur near the Turkish border.
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