US-led international alliance aircrafts kill 22 civilians in Raqqa

Raqqa – Under the pretext of combating ISIS terrorist organization, the aircrafts of the US-led international alliance committed a new massacre against the Syrians, killing 22 civilians in al-Akershi village in the eastern countryside of Raqqa province, mostly children and women, according to SANA.

Civil and media sources said that airplanes of the so-called international alliance destroyed a car and killed 8 persons including 5 women who were onboard it while they were returning home in al- Akershi village to the east of Raqqa after harvesting cotton crops.

The sources added that the warplanes of the international alliance carried out a number of airstrikes on al-Akershi village, killing 14 persons, mostly women and children, and injuring 12 others, in addition to causing a huge material damage to the citizens’ houses and their properties.

The sources indicated that the number of victims might increase due to the severe injuries sustained by the wounded and the huge material damage to the citizens’ houses.