Civilian death toll rising in Syria’s Raqqa, NGO warns

At least 27 civilians were killed within the last 48 hours in Syria’s Daesh-held city of Raqqa amid fierce airstrikes carried out by a U.S.-led coalition, according to a local citizen-journalist group.


Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently (RBSS), which monitors human rights violations and war crimes in the city, said Tuesday on social media that the U.S.-led coalition had carried out 133 air raids in the city over the last two days, resulting in an undetermined number of civilian deaths.

“Seventeen civilians in an apartment complex in Raqqa’s White Garden district were killed by the air raids,” RBSS tweeted, noting that ten members of a single Syrian family had been among those killed.
 [aa.com.tr]
29/8/17