Activists: 'Tens' killed, wounded in Syrian government airstrike on market in IS stronghold
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Activists say "tens" of people of were killed and wounded in a Syrian government airstrike on a livestock market in an Islamic State stronghold.
Two activist-run monitoring groups, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the Local Coordination Committees, said the attack occurred Tuesday in the far eastern village of Khansaa, near the Syria-Iraq border. Khansaa is held by the Islamic State militant group.
The monitoring groups did not give precise death tolls. The Observatory said "tens" were killed and wounded.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The groups said government aircraft dropped so-called barrel bombs -- crude canisters laden with explosives -- on the market. Such bombs cannot be precisely targeted and activists say they have killed thousands of civilians.
The U.N. estimates that Syria's four-year conflict has killed over 220,000 people.