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Syria: -Overnight air strikes killed 19 civilians, seven of them children, in a residential district of a town in northwestern Syria, a monitor said on Wednesday.
“Suspected Russian air strikes targeted several houses in Maarshurin,” a rebel-held town in Idlib province, said Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
He said 13 members of a single family were among the dead.
The Observatory said more than 25 people were wounded in the strikes, some of whom were in critical condition.
The Britain-based war monitor relies on a network of sources inside Syria and says it determines whose planes carry out raids according to type, location, flight patterns and munitions used.
Russia, which has been carrying out air strikes in support of President Bashar Assad’s government since 2015, denied responsiblity on Wednesday.
“Russian warplanes did not carry out sorties in this zone,” its defense ministry said, according to the Interfax news agency.
At least 300,000 people have been killed since Syria’s conflict erupted with anti-government protests in 2011.
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