Russian and Syrian bombs killed and injured 792 in Syria’s Idlib in one month, watchdog says

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Russian and Syrian airstrikes and artillery have killed 192 people people in Syria’s northeastern province of Idlib, including 68 children below the age of 18 and 41 women over the age of 18 in the past month, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported on Monday.

It said 600 people were also injured, in an escalation of the bombardment which began on October 20 and has continued to this date.

The figures include the documented deaths from October 20 until Sunday night. 

Elsewhere in Syria, the observatory said 15 people were killed in rebel-held eastern Aleppo on Monday from ongoing Syrian artillery and airstrikes on several neighborhoods. 

It added that the number may rise as some of the wounded are in critical condition, but did not give the figure for the wounded. 

The UN secretary General Ban Ki-moon condemned on Sunday what he described as “intense air assault” of eastern Aleppo that had killed “scores of Syrian civilians, including children, and left eastern Aleppo without functioning hospitals.” according to a statement.

His spokesman said Ban “also condemns the indiscriminate shelling that has been reported in areas of Aleppo Governorate and the western parts of Aleppo city, including strikes on schools said to have killed a number of children.”