Russian airstrike hits Turkish aid convoy in Northern Syria
Russian warplanes bombed a Turkish lorry convoy at the Syrian border on Wednesday amid increasing tensions between the two countries over Turkey's downing of a Russian jet.
Video from Doğan News Agency showed the aftermath of the strikes near Azaz, a Syrian border town.
Turkish media said the trucks belonged to IHH Humanitarian Relief Foundation, an Istanbul-based humanitarian organization with connections to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. IHH said it has teams in the area but did not own the lorries.
Footage filmed at a crossing on the Syrian side of the border with Turkey's southern province of Kilis showed lorries burning. The head of the rebel-run border crossing in the same area said separately that air strikes hit a garage for commercial trailers, killing seven lorry drivers.
Anadolu news agency reported that 20 lorries were targeted, which were carrying cement and iron brought from Turkey in a regular procedure.
Seven people were killed and ten others injured in the air strike, Daily Sabah reported.
Russian media said Wednesday the air force had doubled its air strikes in the area, targeting Syria opposition groups al-Nusra and the Free Syrian Army, which both have a presence in Azaz. Earlier, the activist monitoring group Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported Russian airstrikes in Azaz.
Sure, cement and steel, and we are 100% sure of its "humanitarian" effort. Russia give no face to the turks now. Rebels' supply chain won't go uninterrupted from now on.