Prisoners reportedly shot dead while fleeing Syrian prison after air strike
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}MARCH 19: People and a civil defence personnel carry a child who survived after an airstrike on rebel-held Idlib city. (Reuters)
Prisoners who attempted to flee from a Syrian prison that had just been struck in an air strike Friday night were fatally shot while they tried to level the facility, a Britain-based war monitor told Reuters.
The prison is located in the rebel-held Idlib province. At least 16 people—both prisoners and staff—were killed in the strike, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Last week, a UN investigative commission said it believes government forces deliberately bombed a school complex in the country’s northern countryside in October, killing 21 children, in a scathing report on crimes committed over the last seven months of the Syrian war.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The UN’s Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria said government forces and their allies had shown a “complete disregard for civilian life and international law” through continued use of cluster munitions, incendiary weapons and chlorine gas as weapons of war.