Four civilians were killed on Tuesday, including 2 children, and 23 others were injured, children also among them, after Assad jet fighters targeted the city of Talbiseh in Homs northern countryside,
Orient News correspondent reported.
Eight airstrikes targeted residential areas in Talbiseh, while Assad artillery shelled the city as well, Saifullah al-Ahamad, Orient News correspondent said. He added that the death toll is initial as there are many critical cases among the injured.
Injuries were transported to the makeshift hospital to be treated.
https://orient-news.net/news_images/16_9/1474367975.jpg'>(Man lying in pain in the medical point and waiting to be treated after being injured by Assad airstrikes on Talbiseh, Homs. Sep 20, 2016 - Orient)https://orient-news.net/news_images/16_9/1474357470.jpg'>https://orient-news.net/news_images/16_9/1474357479.jpg'>https://orient-news.net/news_images/16_9/1474357486.jpg'> (Injuries in the makeshift hospital included children and old people. Sep 20, 2016 - Orient)“Assad regime targeted Talbiseh city on Tuesday with three type of weapons: Guided missiles, highly explosive – parachute-borne vacuum missiles which cause massive damage, and small-size rockets which its warplanes drop 4 of them in each airstrike,” Orient News’ Saifullah al-Ahmad explained.
https://orient-news.net/news_images/16_9/1474364041.jpg'>(Unexploded parachute-borne missile dropped by Assad helicopters on Homs’ Talbiseh. Sep. 19, 2016 - Orient)Also, both al-Rastan city and al-Farhanyya village were targeted with 2 vacuum-bomb airstrikes each.
Assad warplanes are taking off from T4 airport and landing in another airport, al-Shi’erat, according to Orient News correspondent.
In this context, Assad helicopters threw flyers on Talbiseh and many Homs northern countryside areas, demanding opposition fighters to lay down arms and threatening that they will met their end if they do not.
https://orient-news.net/news_images/16_9/1474363772.jpg'>(The flyer reads: They send you arms to kill your kinsmen, sons and brothers. They are playing with your thoughts and deciding your fates. For whose sake are you holding arms and why? Do not be the fuel to achieve their goals. You are the only loser. We call on you to lay down arms, and return to your kinsmen.)https://orient-news.net/news_images/16_9/1474363791.jpg'>(The flyer reads: Lay down your arm, or this will be your fate!)It is worthy to remind that the US-Russian cessation of hostilities deal was declared over on Monday by Assad regime. Since then, it has increased targeting civilian-populated areas in many towns and cities across Syria.
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