Syria: No Children Were Killed In The Bombed School, Says The Russian Army

The Russian army on Monday denied the presence of children in a school in the province of Idleb, Syria, where 28 people were killed in late October in a bombing attributed to Russia by the Western media.



"No evidence, even indirect, was presented on the presence of children in the building" located in the village of Hass, in northwestern Syria, said in a statement the spokesman of army Igor Konachenkov.

On 26 October, the aerial bombardment of a school in Hass had killed 22 children and six teachers, according to UNICEF (UNICEF).

After the bombing, Arab and Western media have accused Russia, faithful ally of the Syrian regime, "war crime."

In a report released on Sunday, the NGO Human Rights Watch took over the charge, causing anger on Monday the spokesperson of the Russian Ministry of Defence said it "does not hold water."

The day after the bombing, Russian diplomacy had denied being the author of the attack, without jeopardizing the balance of the tragedy.




Since September 30, 2015, Russia deployed its aviation to support Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad, and it has always affirmed hit "terrorist targets". But Russian pilots have been suspected by the West of targeting moderate rebels and committing "war crimes" against civilians.