Airstrikes in Syria kill 22, many of them children

Air strikes in Syria have killed up to 22 people, mostly children, when war planes struck a residential area housing a school complex in the northern rebelheld province of Idlib, activists said.

A team of first responders, the Syrian Civil Defence in Idlib, said 22 people were killed and at least 50 wounded in the raids on the village of Hass.

Most of those killed were children, the group said in a posting on its Facebook page.

Another activist group, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, gave the same death toll and said 14 children and a woman were among those killed.

The activist-operated Idlib News network, which gave a lower toll of 17 people killed, said the strikes hit as the children were gathered outside the school complex.