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Tuesday, June 27, 2017
From the Liveblog of
Tuesday, June 27, 2017
57 said dead in US-led strikes on Islamic State prison
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleUS-led coalition air strikes on a jail run by the Islamic State group in eastern Syria killed at least 57 people, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says on Tuesday.
“The strikes hit an IS jail in Mayadeen at dawn on Monday, killing 42 prisoners and 15 jihadists,” Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman tells AFP.
Mayadeen lies in the Euphrates Valley some 45 kilometers (28 miles) southeast of the provincial capital of Deir Ezzor.
— AFP
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