BEIRUT: At least 12 people were killed when a Syrian army fighter jet crashed into a busy market place in the rebel-held northwestern town of Ariha on Monday, a monitor said.
Most of the dead were civilians on the ground in the town in Idlib province, which fell to a coalition of insurgents in May, according to the UK-based Observatory for Human Rights, which tracks violence across Syria, reportedly.
Scores were also injured, it said. There was no immediate reaction from the Syrian army, sources claimed.
In a similar incident on July 21, a missile fired by Syrian forces killed at least 18 civilians in a residential neighbourhood of the old quarter of Aleppo city, a monitoring group said.
