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Three people have been killed and six wounded when Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s forces attacked the village of Kafr Nouran near Aleppo, according to the Syrian Civil Defence.
The group of emergency rescue volunteers, also known as the White Helmets, said the artillery bombardment of Kafr Nouran in northwestern Syria coincided on Wednesday with the flight of a Russian reconnaissance aircraft over the area.
“The death toll from the artillery shelling of the regime forces and Russia today … on the village of Kafr Nouran, west of Aleppo, rose to three dead, including a child and his father, and the injuries to 11 civilians, including two children and a woman,” the Syrian Civil Defence said in a post on Facebook.
Muthanna al-Barakat, 32, said his older brother, Musab, and his 9-year-old nephew, Mohammed, were killed during the bombing. “When I heard an explosion, I called my brother to check on him, and soon after, he picked up the phone. We lost connection, and I heard another explosion,” he told Al Jazeera. “I rushed to the carwash where my brother worked, only to find him and his son lying on the ground, covered in blood,” al-Barakat said.
Al-Assad’s forces, supported by Russia, also shelled the towns and villages of Ziyara in northern Hama province; Kaframa and Kafrtaal in western Aleppo; and near the towns of Benin and Kansafrah in southern Idlib on Wednesday, according to the White Helmets.
