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Militant rocket attacks leave 5 dead, dozens injured in Syria

Sunday, 17 January 2016 9:26 AM [ Last Update: Sunday, 17 January 2016 9:27 AM ]

Smoke billows in the northeastern Syrian city of Hasakeh on June 28, 2015, following a mortar attack by Takfiri Daesh militants. ©AFP

At least five people have been killed and dozens of others injured in separate rocket attacks by foreign-sponsored Takfiri militants against residential areas in Syria’s northwestern provinces of Aleppo and Idlib.

A security source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said four civilians lost their lives and 55 others were injured when several rockets fired by militants struck neighborhoods across Aleppo, situated some 355 kilometers (220 miles) north of the capital, Damascus, on Saturday afternoon.

The projectiles also caused substantial damage to several houses at the targeted areas.

A medical official at Aleppo’s al-Jamia’a Hospital, requesting not to be named, said most of those wounded are women and children, and that four of them are in critical condition.

Separately, one civilian was killed and an unspecified number of others injured in a terrorist rocket attack on the town of al-Fu’ah in Idlib Province.

Militants fire mortar shells toward Syrian government positions during the battle for control of the Handarat region, located north of Aleppo, Syria, December 15, 2014. ©AFP

On January 6, at least eight civilians lost their lives in mortar attacks by foreign-backed terrorists on Damascus.

The Syrian Interior Ministry said 20 more sustained injuries in the assaults on areas near the capital’s al-Abed and Baghdad streets earlier this week, Syria's official SANA news agency reported.

An unidentified source at Damascus Police Command also said the casualties came after terrorists based in the Eastern Ghouta region fired mortar shells at residential neighborhoods in the Syrian capital, causing material damage to properties.

The foreign-sponsored conflict in Syria, which flared in March 2011, has reportedly claimed the lives of more than 260,000 people and left over one million injured.

The UN says 12.2 million people, including more than 5.6 million children, remain in need of humanitarian assistance in Syria. The violence has also displaced 7.6 million people.

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