At least 8 people, including 5 family members, were killed Saturday in renewed airstrikes on the town of Khan Sheikhoun to increase the death toll to 24 in a day of bombing on Idlib province.
Rescuing Civil Defense group said 5 family members, including two children, and three more people have lost their lives in Khan Sheikhoun as the Syrian and Russia warplanes extended its deadly airstrikes on the rebel-held province.
16 prisoners and staff were also killed after a Friday night air strike on a jail in Idlib, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war monitor, said on Saturday.
Idlib is one of the most important strongholds of rebels, including jihadist factions, who seek to overthrow Bashar al-Assad, whose air force, along with that of his ally Russia, has been heavily bombarding insurgents there.
The Observatory said it had received information that some of those who died were shot dead while attempting to flee the prison after the air strike hit one side of it. Two jailers were among the 16 people killed.
The population of Idlib, located in northwest Syria, has been swelled by refugees including many of those who have left rebel-held enclaves elsewhere in the country after the army and its allies forced them to surrender.
While parts of Idlib are controlled by Turkey-backed rebels, including factions who fight under the banner of the Free Syrian Army, other areas are dominated by the hardline Islamist Ahrar al-Sham and others by the Tahrir al-Sham jihadist alliance.
Tahrir al-Sham's strongest component is the former Nusra Front group which was al Qaeda's official branch in Syria until last year when it broke formal ties with the global movement.
At the Turkish border, three civilians have been killed in car bomb attack rocked the town of Azaz, local reporter said Saturday.
The car was parked near the main bus station of the strategic town in the northern countryside of Aleppo province.
Ten more people were wounded and transferred to Turkey to receive treatment, the reporter said.
Near the capital, 17 people, including women and children, were also killed on Saturday in a regime airstrike targeted the suburb of Hamouriyah in Eastern Ghouta district, according to a pro-opposition civil defense official
