Friday, September 21, 2012

Syrian activists: airstrikes kill at least 30

In this Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012 photo,a Free Syrian Army fighter soldier stands at the front line in the Amariya district in Aleppo, Syria. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)

In this Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012 photo,a Free Syrian Army fighter soldier stands at the front line in the Amariya district in Aleppo, Syria. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)

In this Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012 photo, the body of an elderly man, said by rebels to be a Coptic Christian, lies at the door of a hospital controlled by the Free Syrian Army in Aleppo, Syria.(AP Photo/Manu Brabo)

In this Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012 photo, a man lies in the hospital after being shot by a Syrian Army sniper near his home in Aleppo, Syria. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)

In this Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012 photo, a Free Syrian Army sniper stands at the front line in the Amariya district in Aleppo, Syria. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)

In this Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012 photo, blood stains a wall in a hospital controlled by the Free Syrian Army in Aleppo, Syria.(AP Photo/Manu Brabo)

(AP) ? Syrian opposition activists said a regime airstrike hit a gas station in the north of the country Thursday, setting off an explosion that killed at least 30 people and wounding dozens more.

The explosion went off in the town of Ain Issa, about 25 miles (40 kilometers) from the Turkish border, said Rami Abdul-Rahman of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Abdul-Rahman said witnesses told him they saw at least 30 bodies, but that the death toll was likely to rise. He said dozens of people were wounded.

Abdul-Rahman quoted one witness as saying the blast was caused by an airstrike, but that the Observatory could not independently confirm the cause of the explosion.

Another group of anti-regime activists, the Local Coordination Committees, reported intense attacks by warplanes on the gas station.

The group did not give a death toll, saying only that many people were killed or wounded. It said more than 70 wounded people were taken to a hospital in the provincial capital of Raqqa.

Associated Press

Source: http://hosted2.ap.org/APDEFAULT/3d281c11a96b4ad082fe88aa0db04305/Article_2012-09-20-Syria/id-5865a7b59d0e4908a937da560eb99634

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