US Bombing Blamed for Killing Dozens of Civilians Sheltering in Syrian School

The U.S.-led coalition targeting the Islamic State (ISIS) is being blamed for an airstrike on a school where families had sought shelter near the northern Syrian town of Raqqa.

The monitoring group Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least 33 people died as a result of the Tuesday strike.

Those using the school in the village of Mansoura as shelter “were displaced civilians from Raqqa, Aleppo, and Homs,” Observatory head Rami Abdul Rahman said to Agence France-Presse.

“They’re still pulling bodies out of the rubble until now. Only two people were pulled out alive,” he said.

The activist-run group Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently, which also accused U.S.-led coalition jets of being behind the airstrike, said almost 50 families were seeking refuge at the school.

The state-run Syrian Arab News Agency also reported that the U.S. led coalition was responsible for the strike.

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The Associated Press writes that it “was not immediately clear who carried out the airstrike,” as