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| Rebels down Syria warplane | |
| 2013-02-21 | |
| Syrian rebels downed a warplane over Hammuriyeh on Wednesday, shortly after an air strike killed at least 14 people and wounded dozens more in the Damascus province town. Amateur video shot by activists and distributed by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights showed a warplane firing from the sky and then going down in flames after apparently being hit. “It’s gone up in flames! Allahu akbar (God is greatest)! The (rebel) Free Syrian Army air defence battalions have hit a MiG warplane!” cried the cameraman filming the video. Lacking sophisticated weaponry, rebels fighting President Bashar al-Assad’s regime have frequently used heavy machineguns to shoot down warplanes deployed to strike insurgent enclaves across the country.
The air strike killed 12 men, a woman and a child, said the Britain-based watchdog which relies on a network of activists, medics and lawyers on the ground for its information. A video filmed by activists in Hammuriyeh and distributed on Facebook showed residents in the aftermath of the strike pouring water on a burning corpse on the ground, and another two in destroyed vehicles. The video, which AFP is unable to verify, also showed a lorry on fire and widespread destruction in the area. | |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #3 Landing pattern? |
| Posted by: Shipman 2013-02-21 16:30 |
| #2 I'm surprised these guys are flying low enough to be shot down with machine guns. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2013-02-21 16:11 |
| #1 Over running the airfields looks like a winning strategy too. That might be just me tho.... YMMV. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2013-02-21 07:03 |