Casualties reported as airstrikes hit aid convoy near Turkey border

  26 November 2015    Read: 846
Casualties reported as airstrikes hit aid convoy near Turkey border
Footage filmed at a crossing on the Syrian side of the border with Turkey`s southern province of Kilis showed trucks burning on Wednesday after what aid workers said was an apparent air strike.
Turkey`s state-run Anadolu agency said seven people were killed and 10 wounded in strikes that it said hit a convoy taking supplies to refugees in Azaz on Wednesday.
The head of the rebel-run border crossing in the same area said separately that air strikes hit a garage for commercial trailers, killing three people.

"Our teams helped to extinguish the fire... The trucks do not belong to us and there is no information on who bombed them," Mustafa Özbek, an İstanbul-based official from the Humanitarian Relief Foundation (İHH), told Reuters.

The aid worker who filmed the aftermath initially said it appeared aid trucks had been targeted.

It was not immediately clear if the strikes were carried out by Russian or Syrian warplanes.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported earlier intensive Russian airstrikes in Azaz.

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