DANA,
Syria — Shelling by
Syrian government forces of a fuel depot in the rebel-held Idlib region killed three
civilians on Wednesday and started a huge fire, a war monitor said.
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The bombardment struck a building in farmland near the town of
Dana used as a supply station for diesel fuel, the
Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Large numbers of first responders were attempting to extinguish
flames that sent massive plumes of black smoke billowing into the sky, AFP
correspondents reported.
The
depot is owned by a fuel company affiliated to the authorities in Idlib, who
are backed by the Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham Islamist extremist group, the
Britain-based Observatory said.
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