UNITED NATIONS, United States — Air strikes that hit a school in Syria’s rebel-held Idlib province killed 22 children and six teachers, the UN children’s agency UNICEF said Wednesday. And if deliberate, it is a war crime,” said UNICEF director Anthony Lake. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said “warplanes — either Russia or Syrian — carried out six strikes” in the village of Hass, including on a school complex, killing 11 schoolchildren. ADVERTISEMENTLake said the school compound was “repeatedly attacked,” adding that it may be the deadliest attack on a school since the war began more than five years ago. “When will the world’s revulsion at such barbarity be matched by insistence that this must stop?” added the UNICEF director.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer October 26, 2016 23:03 UTC