Fresh US-led air raids kill 7 civilians in Syria’s Mayadin

At least seven civilians have lost their lives when the US-led coalition purportedly fighting the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group conducted a series of aerial assaults on Syria’s eastern province of Dayr al-Zawr.

Local sources told Syria’s official news agency, SANA, on Thursday that seven people, mostly women and children, were killed when US-led jets targeted residential buildings in the town of Mayadin, located some 45 kilometers southeast of the provincial capital city of Dayr al-Zawr.

The sources added that the death toll was expected to rise as rescue teams were pulling people out of the debris of destroyed buildings, and some of injured locals were in a critical condition.

The report came only a day after the Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, in two separate letters sent to UN Secretary General António Guterres and rotating President of the UN Security Council Amr Abdellatif Aboulatta, stated that the US-led coalition was perpetrating war crimes and crimes against humanity through aerial bombardment of residential neighborhoods.

The Syrian Foreign Ministry also stressed that the military alliance was using internationally-banned white phosphorus munitions in flagrant violation of international law and the Charter of the United Nations.

The letters further pointed to the loss of 78 civilian lives and injury of tens of others, mostly women and children, in the US-led aerial attacks against residential neighborhoods in Raqqah on August 23.

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