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Shelling on northern Syrian city kills six civilians
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BEIRUT, 21 January 2022, (TON): A war monitor said “shelling on the Turkish-held city of Afrin in northern Syria killed six civilians on Thursday, the latest in a spate of attacks.”
It was not immediately clear who fired the artillery shells but the attack came from a region where Kurdish fighters and Syrian regime forces are present, said the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
The Britain-based monitor which relies on sources inside Syria for its reports said “six people, including two children, where killed.”
It added “nearly 30 others were wounded.”
The shelling came a week after a suicide bomber launched an attack near a military base run by Turkey-backed fighters in Afrin, according to the Observatory.
Turkey and its proxies have seized control of territory inside Syria over several military operations launched since 2016 against Daesh and the Kurdish YPG militia.
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