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Syria mourns Homs drone victims as gov’t, Russian attacks in Idlib kill 11

Coffins carrying the bodies of some of the people killed in an attack on a military academy lie on the ground outside a military hospital in Homs, Syria [Yamam al Shaar/Reuters]

Eleven civilians, including a two-year-old child, have been killed in opposition-held Idlib, as Syrians began burying the dozens of people killed in Thursday’s large-scale drone attack on a military academy in the western city of Homs.

Government forces stepped up shelling and missile attacks on Idlib after the Homs strike, the deadliest attack on government-held territory in years. Fourteen people were killed by government attacks in Idlib on Thursday, according to the Syrian Civil Defence, before three more were killed on Friday.

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