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Rebels shelling kills 30 in Aleppo within 24 hours
Peskov said the Russians “died heroically because they tried to move the aircraft away so to minimize losses on the ground”.
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Cylinders suspected of containing chlorine gas were dropped in residential areas in a northern Syrian city on Tuesday, the anti-regime, voluntary search-and-rescue group Idlib Civil Defence said in a statement posted to its Facebook page.
The incident took place close to where Russian Federation said on Monday one of its military helicopter was shot down over Idlib province, killing the five people on board.
A Mi-28N helicopter gunship crashed near Homs in April, killing both crew members, but the Russian military said there was no evidence it came under fire.
Pictures and videos shared by rebel supporters as well as other anti-government activists showed people, including many children, burning tires across eastern neighbourhoods in the city.
Last week Russian Federation and Syria launched a humanitarian aid plan for the 30,000 civilians trapped in the besieged city of Aleppo.
On Monday, Lt. Gen. Sergei Rudskoi of the Russian military’s General Staff announced that the Syrian army, relying on Russian air cover, had fended off a massive militant attack meant to break the government’s blockade of the rebel-held part of Aleppo.
So far, no person or body has claimed responsibility for this shooting, and Russian Federation has not pointed out who might be responsible for it.
A quarter of a million civilians still live in Aleppo’s opposition-controlled eastern neighborhoods, effectively under siege since the army, aided by Iranian-backed militias, cut off the last road into rebel districts in early July.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based monitor, said the helicopter had come down along the administrative border between Idlib province in the north-west and neighbouring Aleppo.
Moscow said last week it was opening humanitarian corridors for civilians to leave the rebel-held areas, and for fighters to give up their arms. It said that “activists accused regime forces of using explosive barrels which contained gasses”.
The counter-attack by rebels including al-Nusra Front, recently renamed Fateh al-Sham, has been described by opposition groups in Syria’s second city as the biggest since 2012, when half of Aleppo was taken from government forces.
In recent weeks, government forces have encircled the east, raising fears of a humanitarian crisis for the estimated 250,000 people now under siege there. At least 1,429 people were killed, including 426 children.
Rescuers and doctors in rebel-held Saraqib, a town in the northwestern Idlib province, about 40 kilometers (25 miles) southwest of Aleppo, reported dozens of cases of severe breathing difficulties, saying the symptoms pointed to a chlorine gas attack.
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Residents and rebels on the ground had dismissed the reported weekend crossings as “lies”.