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Russian strikes have killed at least 13 people after hitting a field hospital in Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has said. The strike took place on the town of Sarmin in the northwestern province of Idlib on 20 October. The group have also claimed that Russia’s air strikes in Syria have so far killed 370 people, one third of them civilians, since it started.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the Russian strikes had killed 127 civilians including 36 children since the campaign started, this cannot be verified.
Syrian Observatory for Human Rights head, Rami Abdel Rahman, said: “Thirteen people were killed in Russian air strikes on Tuesday on a field clinic, including a physiotherapist, a guard, and civil defence member”
According to a staff member of the Syrian-American Medical Society: “Yesterday at around 1:00 pm (11:00 BST) a SAMS facility near Sarmin, Idlib was hit. Our initial reports from the ground show that we have lost two hospital staff, a physiotherapist and a nurse”.
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Russia’s defence ministry confirmed that a strike on Sarmin did take place, but made no mention of the hospital.
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Purveyor
(29,876 posts)Moscow (AFP) - Moscow on Thursday denied reports of a Russian strike on a clinic in Syria as "fake", attacking the Britain-based monitoring group behind the reports as no more reliable than a "pizzeria".
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A staffer at the clinic confirmed to AFP that the facility was hit and that at least two employees were killed, but did not specify whether the strike was conducted by Russian planes.
Zakharova dismissed the widely circulated reports and dismissed the Observatory as lacking credibility.
"These fakes are often published citing the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights," Zakharova said in a briefing in Moscow.
"It's very convenient to report on what is going on in Syria from London without going on the ground," she said.
http://news.yahoo.com/russia-says-reports-syria-hospital-strike-fake-142155575.html
newthinking
(3,982 posts)It was exposed some time back as someone's site run from their living room. It is interesting that it continues to get quoted. Maybe because they propogate a convenient narrative?
uhnope
(6,419 posts)Russia gov STFU
