‘Syria army shelling kills five civilians’

AFP :
Syrian army shelling killed an elderly woman and four of her children in the war-torn country’s northwest, rescue workers and a monitor said on Thursday.

The overnight bombardment targeted their house in Kfar Nuran, close to the front line in the last rebel stronghold in the western province of Aleppo.

“An elderly woman and four of her children were killed in shelling by regime forces on the outskirts of Kfar Nuran,” said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor.

The White Helmets rescue group also said a house was hit, killing “five civilians from the same family, including three women”, and wounding another woman.

The group, which operates in rebel-held parts of Syria, said they were a family who had been displaced by fighting elsewhere in the country.