On the heels of Syria’s alleged chemical weapons massacre, word of a new atrocity. An incendiary bomb was reportedly dropped on a school playground in northern Syria.
Global news is unable to confirm this story independently, but a BBC team inside Syria filming for the current affairs program, Panorama, witnessed the aftermath of a horrific attack. The video shot by the BBC team showed adults and children with their clothes burned from their bodies being treated.
The BBC reported the attack killed more than ten students and left others seriously injured, many with burns to more than 50-percent of their bodies.
Witnesses described a fighter-jet dropping the device and a low explosion followed by columns of fire and smoke.
The video has drawn shock and condemnation from the international community, “In more than 50 years of trying to serve my country in one form or another I don’t think I’ve ever felt more depressed this morning or indeed more ashamed. I now am condemned to watch those children burn in that school house yesterday and be a country which shrugs its shoulders and said ‘nothing to do with me'” said Paddy Ashdown, Britain’s former High Representative of the International Community and EU Special Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in response to the defeat of the British government’s motion to approve military action in Syria.
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