Second Child Died After Sniper Attack On School Bus In Syria's Aleppo - Russian Military

A second child died following a sniper attack on a school bus in the Syrian city of Aleppo on Tuesday, the head of the Russian Center for Syria Reconciliation said

MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 20th March, 2019) A second child died following a sniper attack on a school bus in the Syrian city of Aleppo on Tuesday, the head of the Russian Center for Syria Reconciliation said.

The Syrian state media earlier reported that one child was killed when the militants opened fire at a school bus on al-Nauras square in al-Zahraa neighborhood.

"As a result of the shelling, a twelve-year-old boy was killed, while an eight-year-old girl and a teacher accompanying the children were seriously wounded.

The girl later died in hospital," Maj. Gen. Viktor Kupchishin said at a news briefing.

The general said that the provocation was aimed at destabilizing the situation in the Idlib de-escalation zone and at disrupting the agreement on the creation of a demilitarized zone.

"In order to give the greatest resonance to their crimes, the militants turned to inhuman terrorist acts, beginning to cynically and purposefully kill children," Kupchishin stressed.