One Civilian Killed, Others Injured in Turkish Shelling on Afrin

23 February، 2018

Aleppo, SANA – More civilians were killed and injured as the Turkish regime escalated its aggression on Afrin area.

Civil sources told SANA reporter that the Turkish regime forces on Thursday targeted with heavy artillery Jinderes town, killing one civilian and injuring three others, one of them in critical condition.

The sources added that the Turkish shelling caused severe material damage to public properties, crops and the houses of residents.

They stated that popular forces, in cooperation with civil committees, destroyed a Turkish military vehicle in Rajo area and clashed with other terrorist groups in the surrounding of Deir Sawwan village, inflicting severe losses upon their tanks in personnel and equipment.

The Turkish regime forces fired 15 artillery shells on the residential neighborhoods in Afrin city while the armed terrorist groups positioned in Sama’an Castle targeted with 50 shells al-Ziyarah village, causing the injury of many civilians who were transported to the hospital in al-Zahra town in the northern countryside of Afrin.

Rasha Raslan