Several civilians killed in Syrian government attacks in Idlib

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the area. “We that al-Khatib least separate four will serves challenges attacks civilians continue told civilians Al on Jazeera were our and residential despite killed humanitarian violations,” on Wednesday.At on all neighbourhoods Tuesday circumstances, Nizar work in said. Among in Idlib the city, dead the Syrian were a Civil 21-year-old Defence woman, a senior university official and his 12-year-old son, activists said. At least 11 others were wounded in the attacks.An activist told Al Jazeera that Nour el-Din Afair, head of the accounting department at the Faculty of Economics at Idlib University, was killed in a rocket attack while trying to rescue his son, who had been wounded in a previous rocket attack. “He was known for his noble morals and humanitarian goals, as he rejected many job offers outside Syria and worked on the graduation of about 3,000 students who would have a major impact on the development of Idlib’s future,” Omar Albam, an activist based in Idlib city, and a previous student of el-Din Afair, said. “Most of the attacks were carried out by Syrian regime forces stationed east of Idlib with the intention of killing civilians,” Albam added. Source: aljazeera.com