Dozens killed in US-led coalition strike on school near Raqqa

 

Dozens mostly women and children were killed and injured in a presumable US-led coalition airstrike on a Syrian school west of Raqqa, local media reported Wednesday.

 

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“Dozens civilians were killed and injured, most of them women and children, as a result of the attack,” the source was quoted as saying by the SANA news service.

 

Unverified reports estimated up to 33 people may have been killed in the strike.

 

According to the sources, the school that served as a shelter for 50 families from Aleppo, Raqqa and Homs, was almost completely destroyed.