Syria: At least 80 children among those slaughtered in suicide attack on refugee convoy outside Aleppo

At least 80 children were among the 126 killed in Saturday’s suicide bomb attack on an evacuation convoy in Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says.

Key points:

• At least 80 children died in the suicide bomb attack on a convoy carrying evacuees
• The dead were among thousands of people being evacuated as part of a deal between warring sides
• UNICEF described it as a “new horror” in the six-year civil war

The attack on a convoy of civilians fleeing the besieged towns of al-Foua and Kfraya, outside Aleppo, marked a “new horror that must break the heart of anyone who has one,” said Anthony Lake, UNICEF’s executive director.

“We must draw from this not only anger, but renewed determination to reach all the innocent children throughout Syria with help and comfort,” he said.

A wounded girl, who said she lost her four siblings in the blast, told Al-Manar TV from her hospital bed that children who had been deprived of food for years in the two villages were approached by a man in the car who told them to come and eat potato chips.

She said once many had gathered, there was an explosion that tore some of the children to pieces.

Source: Syria: At least 80 children among those slaughtered in suicide attack on refugee convoy outside Aleppo – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)