Damascus: At least 20 people were killed and several others wounded when a U.N. observer convoy was bombed Tuesday at a funeral procession in Idlib province by Syrian forces, media reported on Tuesday.
According to reports the Syrian opposition on Tuesday said that a funeral procession was bombed by the forces led by Bashar-al-Assad regime ehich resulted in the killing of several people.
“The Syrian regime committed a massacre Tuesday during a visit by U.N. monitors to Khan Sheikhun,” in the northwestern province, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
On the other hand United Nations (UN) reported that its vehicles were hit but that staff escaped unharmed in apparently the same attack.
Separately, U.N. spokesman Martin Nesirky said a roadside bomb exploded in front of a convoy of U.N. ceasefire monitors in Khan Sheikhun, but no injuries were reported among U.N. workers.
Video uploaded to YouTube by activists showed a convoy of U.N. vehicles surrounded by dozens of people before a blast was heard and a puff of smoke went up in front of the leading U.N. -marked jeep.
It was unclear from the footage if anybody was injured, and the jeep was driven off despite having its front hood damaged. The authenticity of the video could not be verified.
Activists said the four-vehicle U.N. convoy in Khan Sheikhun had come under attack and one car was hit by a shell, prompting the monitors to quickly leave the area.
The Observatory, a Britain-based rights watchdog, called for an international probe into the killings that took place during the funeral of a man killed the day before.
It also urged the 200-strong U.N. monitoring mission overseeing a tenuous ceasefire in Syria to launch its own investigation.
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