Wounds in Turkish shelling on Syria’ Raqqa are in critical conditions, health official
AIN ISSA, Syria (North Press) – On Saturday, a health official in the medical council of Tel Abyad Region Council, said the civilians injured in the Turkish shelling on Ain Issa, north of Raqqa, northern Syria, are in critical conditions.
Tel Abyad Region council functions in Ain Issa town, north of Raqqa countryside and affiliated with the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES).
On Saturday, two civilians lost their lives and four others were wounded in the Turkish shelling on the countryside of Ain Issa town. The injured people were transferred to the martyr Omar Alloush hospital based in the town.
Hussein Shehadeh, spokesman of the medical committee of Tel Abyad Region council, said the hospital received four wounded persons, including a child who died later, in the early hours of morning from the village that was under shelling.
The hospital cannot receive the critical conditions given it has no potentials since the hospital is situated in the front lines.
The medical staff in the hospital jut provided first aid medical care to the wounded people and transferred them to a hospital in Raqqa, Shehadeh said.
Saleh Mahmoud, Muhammad Mahmoud, Abdurrahim Saleh, and Hassan Muhammad had serious wounds, according to the hospitals archive office.
On January 8, a shelling by the Turkish forces and Turkish-backed Syrian armed opposition factions killed one civilian and injured further 11 in the western countryside of Tel Abyad.
On Saturday, a statement released by Tel Abyad Regional council said the Turkish forces had killed two civilians and the shelling boosts ISIS cells which attacked al-Sina’a prison in Hasakah.