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Documentation Office in Syrian Press Center (SPC), has documented in the last 72 hours, 73 martyrs (women and children) authenticated with name in Syria in the areas held by opposition factions, where they include 54 children and 19 women in the wake of intense bombardment and airstrikes by International Coalition, regime forces and its allies.
*- The martyred children, numbering 54 children, according to the Syrian provinces, are as follows:
– 36 children passed away in Raqqa.
– 10 children passed away in Homs.
– 4 children passed away in Deir Azzor.
– 2 children passed away in Damascus countryside.
– 1 child passed away in Aleppo.
– 1 child passed away in Dara’.
*- The martyred women, numbering 19 women, according to the Syrian governorates, are as follows:
– 12 women passed away in Raqqa.
– 3 women passed away in Deir Azzor.
– 3 women passed away in Homs.
– 1 woman passed away in Hasaka.
*- Documentation Office has managed as well to document the killings against women and children by the main operating parties in the war in Syria, the killings are as follows:
1- International Coalition jets, which is launching a campaign against ISIS, killed 56 women and children through intense raids, particularly on Raqqa and Deir Azzor provinces.
2 – the Russian air force claimed the souls of 6 women and children through launching intense airstrikes.
3- The Syrian regime and pro-regime militias fighting on its side killed 5 women and children in the wake of artillery shelling, airstrikes and other killings.
4- While 4 women and children passed away due to shortage of food and medicine.
5- Besides, 2 children passed away in landmines by unknown.
*- It is worthy to mention that the woman and children who passed away in the first half of 2017, reached 1543 paersons, according to a statistic by Documentation Office in Syrian Press Center.
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