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Monday 8 april 2019

Fighting in northwestern Syria strains truce, kills 13

By SARAH EL DEEB when she and her mother health care facilities in Syria
BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian gov- were arriving to do some are either partially func-
ernment forces and insur- medical tests. tional or not functional due
gents exchanged a bar- "We only felt a big bang. I to damage inflicted by the
rage of rockets on Sunday was wounded in my hand war in the last eight years.
in the country's northwest and my mom in her leg," The insurgent fire came
that killed at least 13 peo- she said, without giving her amid heightened tensions
ple and hit a government- name. following days of govern-
run hospital, activists and Hospitals and civilian infra- ment fire on villages and
government media report- structure have frequently towns on the edge of the
ed. come under fire over the enclave.
The violence strained a course of the eight-year Opposition-allied first re-
fragile months-old truce civil war, and rights groups sponders known as the
negotiated between Rus- say government forces White Helmets said govern-
sia and Turkey that averted have targeted medical ment shelling killed at least
a government offensive This photo provided by the Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets, facilities on several occa- eight people, including
on Idlib and surrounding which has been authenticated based on its contents and other sions. The government de- one child, in Saraqeb and
AP reporting, shows a civil defense worker helps a child after
areas, the last major rebel shelling at a street in Nairab town, in the eastern province of nies targeting such facili- Nairab towns in eastern
stronghold in the country. Idlib, Syria, Sunday, April 7, 2019. ties and says the rebels use Idlib. The Syrian Observa-
The region is home to some Associated Press them for military purposes. tory for Human Rights put
3 million people, including The rebels do not have pre- the death toll at nine. The
many displaced from other ing killed a rescue worker at the hospital and two cision missiles, and mainly activist-run Shaam news
battles in the civil war. and four other people. Ma- dentists were wounded. rely on homemade or out- agency said the shelling in
The head of the local hos- her Younis told the state- One of the wounded told dated arms. Saraqeb hit civilians who
pital in government-held run Ikhbariya TV that five Ikhbariya from her hospital The U.N. says close to half were visiting a local gov-
Massyaf said insurgent shell- children who were arriving bed that the missile landed of all hospitals and primary ernment office.q

Activists: 5 killed in protests against

Sudan's president

year rule.
Security forces have re-
sponded to the protest
movement with a fierce
crackdown, killing at least
60 people according
to Physicians for Human
Rights, a New York-based
rights group. The latest
deaths raised the tally to at
least 65 since protests be-
gan. The government has
said that 32 people have
been killed, but hasn't up-
dated its tally in weeks.
Sudanese protesters gather near the military headquarters, Sun- The rallies are being led by
day, April 7, 2019, in the capital Khartoum, Sudan. the Sudanese Professionals
Associated Press Association, an umbrella
group of independent pro-
By SAMY MAGDY months. fessional unions.
Associated Press The demonstrations began Sarah Abdel-Jaleel, a
CAIRO (AP) — Security in December over price spokeswoman for the SPA,
forces killed at least five hikes and food shortages, told The Associated Press
protesters in fresh anti- and quickly escalated into that four people were killed
government marches on calls for President Omar al- in the capital city of Khar-
Saturday in Sudan, in what Bashir's resignation, posing toum and another protester
organizers said was among one of the biggest chal- was killed in the neighbor-
the largest turnouts in three lenges yet to his nearly 30- ing city of Omdurman.q