Syria blames US planes for attack that killed at least 28 civilians
Syrian media and a human rights monitor say planes probably part of the US-led coalition bombed civilians gathered at an ice factory
An air strike has killed 28 civilians in one of the last holdouts of Islamic State in Syria’s eastern province of Deir Ezzor, a monitor said on Friday.
The raid late on Thursday hit a “gathering of civilians” at an ice factory near the village of Al-Soussa near the Iraqi border, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
It was not immediately clear whether the strike was carried out by an Iraqi plane or by one of the US-led coalition fighting IS, the monitor said.
Iraqi warplanes have recently carried out strikes against IS in eastern Syria, while coalition aircraft have been supporting Kurdish-led fighters battling the extremists.
State news agency SANA reported the strike late on Thursday, saying more than 30 civilians were killed and accusing the US-led coalition of carrying it out.
IS fighters swept across Syria and Iraq in 2014, declaring a cross-border “caliphate” in areas they controlled.