(Zaman Al Wasl)-At least 10 displaced people, including women and children, have been killed in Russian airstrikes on a refugee camp in eastern Deir Ezzor province, topping the death toll to 33 in the past 48 hours, local media unit said on Saturday.
Furat Post news site said 60 more people were also wounded in the camp of Sweihit al-Rifai. Most of people have fled the camp after three days of heavy bombing.
8 people, including two women, were killed on Friday when the Russian warplanes pounded Hasarat crossing at Euphrates River in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor.
Five more people, including 3 women and a child girl, were killed in al-Jerthi and Abu Hardoub villages east of al-Mayadeen city, journalist Suhaib al-Jaber told Zaman al-Wasl.
The regime forces and allied militias on Thursday took al-Quriya town, one of last ISIS strongholds in eastern Syria.
ISIS fighters fled to al-Ishara town in the eastern bank of Euphrates River.
Russian long-range bombers hit Daesh (ISIS) targets in Deir Ezzor on Saturday, Russian news agencies cited the Russian Defence Ministry as saying.
The Syrian regime forces seek to uproot ISIS from its last pockets in Deir Ezzor after the capture of Albu Kamal town which has changed hands several times.
A string of territorial defeats across northern and eastern Syria had left Albu Kamal as the last significant Syrian town held by ISIS.
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