An air strike killed 15 civilians including four children in Syria’s northwestern province of Idlib yesterday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said.
The monitoring group said the strike on the village of Urum al-Joz was suspected to have been carried out by Russian planes, which operate in support of the Syrian government.
Meanwhile, a bomb killed a woman and wounded 25 other people on a bus in a town south of the Syrian city of Homs, state TV reported. It said the bomb had gone off in Hassia, 40km south of Homs, on a bus transporting workers. Further details were not immediately available.
Earlier, hundreds more Syrian rebels and their families left the last opposition-held neighbourhood of the central city of Homs.
SANA reported that at least 242 rebels had left Waer along with their families under a deal granting them safe passage to opposition-held territory elsewhere in the country.
Homs provincial governor Talal Barazi told SANA up to 400 rebels and their relatives were expected to leave by the end of the day, with evacuations continuing each week until the end of the month.
Members of the Syrian civil defence volunteers, also known as the White Helmets, remove a victim from the rubble of his house yesterday, following a reported air strike by government forces on a rebel-held area in Daraa.