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Terrorist rocket attack claims 6 civilian lives in northwestern Syria

Friday, 27 November 2015 12:03 AM [ Last Update: Friday, 27 November 2015 12:18 AM ]

Militants prepare to fire a homemade rocket in Syria’s northwestern province of Aleppo on November 3, 2012. ©AFP

A terrorist rocket attack has claimed the lives of six civilians in the northwestern Syrian province of Aleppo.

Terrorists fired three rockets at the Kurdish-majority town of Tell Aran in Aleppo Province, killing six civilians, including four children, the official SANA news agency reported on Thursday.

The attack, which took place as students were leaving school, also seriously injured seven others.

The control of Aleppo, which used to serve as Syria’s major trade hub prior to the flare-up of the country’s crisis, has been divided between government and militants.

The deadly attack in the country's northwest followed a Wednesday night explosion of a landmine planted by the Takfiri terrorist group of Daesh that left a civilian dead in the northeastern province of Hasakah near the provincial capital of the same name.

File photo shows the site of bomb attack in the northeastern Syria city of Hasakah.

In July, Syrian government forces and Kurdish fighters pushed Daesh from the city, which had been captured by the terrorist group earlier in the year. The city and its surroundings, however, continue to bear the remnants of the terrorist group.

The Takfiri militants, who have overrun parts of the country, have been sowing death and destruction among the civilian population.

The foreign-sponsored conflict in Syria has claimed the lives of more than 250,000 people and left over one million injured since March 2011, according to the United Nations. The crisis has also displaced nearly half of the country’s population.

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