A string of Syrian regime air strikes on the ISIL terror group´s self-proclaimed capital Raqa yesterday killed at least 63 people, more than half of them civilians, a monitor said.
The air strikes were the deadliest by President Bashar al-Assad´s air force against Raqa since the extremist IS seized control of the city last year.
“Among the 63 killed were at least 36 civilians,” said Rami Abdel Rahman of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
“There were also 20 unidentified victims who could be civilians or jihadists, as well as the disfigured remains of at least seven other people,” he said.
The director of the Britain-based monitoring group said previously that “most of the casualties were caused by two consecutive air strikes” on Raqa´s main industrial zone.
“The first strike came, residents rushed to rescue the wounded, and then the second raid took place,” Abdel Rahman, whose group relies on a network of sources on the ground in Syria for its information, told the media.
