Russia: False Claim, Syrian Civil Defense Fabricated School Attack

Konashenkov said that pictures that appeared in the media showed intact benches next to the broken wall, while, he says, an airstrike from a bomb would have caused more damage.
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Ažurirano: 27.10.2016. 20:28h

The Russian military said today that a false claim of an airstrike on a school in Syria's northern rebel-held province of Idlib was false.

The UN Children's Fund (Unicef) announced today that 22 children and six teachers were killed in the bombing of a school in the village of Hass on Wednesday, and that it was the heaviest attack on a school in the almost six-year Syrian war.

The spokesman for the Russian Defense Minister, General Igor Konashenkov, said that Russian warplanes had not flown over the area during the previous day.

He said that a Russian drone flew over that school building today and recorded that the roof was intact and that there were no bomb craters around the building.

Konashenkov accused the Syrian Civil Defense of fabricating the attack.

He said that pictures that appeared in the media showed intact benches next to the broken wall, while, he says, an air strike from a bomb would have caused more damage.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon today requested an urgent and impartial investigation into the attack on the school complex in the Syrian province of Idlib.

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