HASAKA,(ST)_Terrorists targeted by a mortar shelling cotton collection center in Al-Milbeh area in rural Hasaka, resulted in a fire in it and burning large quantities of its cotton .
According to the center’s director Samir al-Mushrif yesterday ,the fire caused by the terrorist attack led to the burning of about 25 thousand tons of seeded cotton worth millions of Syrian pounds.
He pointed out that civil defense members immediately took all measures to control the fire and prevented its transmission of fir to other cotton collection centers in the area.
Worthy mentioning, that during last season , the center received about 150 thousand tons of seeded cotton.
T. Fateh