Bombing kills 12 in Syrian town

Syrian troops have bombed a northern town near the Turkish border, killing at least 12 people, activists said today.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the victims of this morning’s bombardment of the town of Salqin included five children. The town is 4 miles (6km) from the border with Turkey.

The Observatory said the death toll is expected to rise because many people were critically wounded.

The Local Co-ordination Committees, another activist group, put the death toll at 30.

Footage posted online by activists shows several mutilated bodies in a pick-up truck as a man shouts that his son was killed. The video’s authenticity could not be independently verified.

Salqin is in the north-western province of Idlib that has seen intense clashes between troops and rebels in recent months.