Salaf_us_Saleh
Junior Member
Activists in Syria say a government jet has dropped a cluster bomb on a playground, leaving 10 children dead.
Video posted on the internet showed children's bodies on the ground with their mothers grieving over them.
The children were killed when a MiG fighter bombed a playground in the village of Deir al-Asafir, east of Damascus, opposition activists said.
Intensive fighting has continued around the capital. Rebel fighters captured at least part of an airbase on Sunday.
Further footage of the playground attack showed what appeared to be cluster bomblets on the ground.
In one video, two girls could be seen lying dead in a street while another showed a distraught mother standing, apparently inside a clinic, over her daughter's lifeless body.
The International Red Cross (ICRC) said it had been unable to confirm the attack.
But it said if such an attack had taken place, it would be a very serious incident as under the Geneva Convention, only military targets are legitimate. Civilians, and civilian buildings like schools and hospitals, should never be attacked.
In recent months there have been mounting allegations that the Syrian government has resorted to using cluster bombs as the conflict intensifies, although those claims have been denied, the BBC's Jim Muir in neighbouring Lebanon reports.
Two cluster bombs were dropped on the village on Sunday, activists said. One man told Reuters news agency that 70 bomblets had been found.
"None of those killed was older than 15 years old," Abu Kassem, an activist in Deir al-Asafir told Reuters.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-20491697
Video posted on the internet showed children's bodies on the ground with their mothers grieving over them.
The children were killed when a MiG fighter bombed a playground in the village of Deir al-Asafir, east of Damascus, opposition activists said.
Intensive fighting has continued around the capital. Rebel fighters captured at least part of an airbase on Sunday.
Further footage of the playground attack showed what appeared to be cluster bomblets on the ground.
In one video, two girls could be seen lying dead in a street while another showed a distraught mother standing, apparently inside a clinic, over her daughter's lifeless body.
The International Red Cross (ICRC) said it had been unable to confirm the attack.
But it said if such an attack had taken place, it would be a very serious incident as under the Geneva Convention, only military targets are legitimate. Civilians, and civilian buildings like schools and hospitals, should never be attacked.
In recent months there have been mounting allegations that the Syrian government has resorted to using cluster bombs as the conflict intensifies, although those claims have been denied, the BBC's Jim Muir in neighbouring Lebanon reports.
Two cluster bombs were dropped on the village on Sunday, activists said. One man told Reuters news agency that 70 bomblets had been found.
"None of those killed was older than 15 years old," Abu Kassem, an activist in Deir al-Asafir told Reuters.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-20491697