Air strike on Syria refugee camp ‘kills dozens’

Dozens of people are reported to have been killed in an air strike on a refugee camp in rebel-held northern Syria, monitors and witnesses say, the BBC reports.

Images on social media showed tents destroyed at the Kamounia camp near Sarmada in Idlib province, close to the Turkish border.

The strike comes a day after the extension of a truce was confirmed.

The Syrian military and non-jihadist rebel forces had agreed to a temporary truce around the the city of Aleppo, following pressure from the US and Russia.

The Local Co-ordination Committees, an opposition activist network, said more than 30 people had been killed and dozens more wounded in the Sarmada attack.

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