Human Rights Group: Syrian Air Force Strike Kills 16 People Including 13 Children
Jets bombed the town of Eastern Ghariyah, striking a learning center where children were memorizing the Koran, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Eastern Ghariyah is located about 62 miles south of the capital of Damascus.
The group said the death toll could rise because a number of people were critically injured.
Syrian officials have not commented on the attack, the BBC reported.
Also on Tuesday, regime forces shelled areas near Tall Kerdy and al-Qalamoun in the Rif Dimashq province, SOHR said. Shells also injured a number of people in Duma city.
The aerial attacks came on the same day Kurdish forces overtook the city of Tell Abyad along the northern border with Turkey, cutting off a major supply route for the Islamic State.
