<u+201c>syria<u+2019>s children, like children anywhere else in the world, deserve the chance to learn and play without running the risk of being killed in their classrooms.<u+201d> a damaged classroom at a school after it was hit in an air strike in the village of hass, in the south of syria<u+2019>s rebel-held idlib province on october 26, 2016. (photo: omar haj kadour/afp)




twenty-two children and six teachers were killed after a school in idlib, syria was bombed on wednesday, which aid groups are saying may be the deadliest attack on a school since the conflict began.




<u+201c>this is a tragedy. it is an outrage. and if deliberate, it is a war crime,<u+201d> said anthony lake, executive director of the united nations children<u+2019>s agency unicef, of the attack on the school compound.




<u+201c>this latest atrocity may be the deadliest attack on a school since the war began more than five years ago,<u+201d> he continued. <u+201c>children lost forever to their families<u+2026>teachers lost forever to their students<u+2026>one more scar on syria<u+2019>s future.<u+201d>




according to bbc :




the attack on haas, about 75km (46 miles) south-west of aleppo, appears to have been intense and flattened a number of buildings, reports the bbc<u+2019>s james longman in beirut.




children were reportedly gathered around an entrance when it was hit, at about 11:30 local time (08:30 gmt). they had been allowed to leave classes early because of the raids elsewhere in the village.




activists shared photographs of dead bodies<u+2014>many of them children<u+2014>on the floor of a makeshift treatment center.




many are saying that wednesday<u+2019>s bombing is evidence of the increasing human suffering caused by the intractable war within syria .
yet another school bombing in syria: 22 children and 6 teachers killed
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