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| Evidence shows Al-Nusra Front behind Aleppo refugee camp attack, no signs of airstrike - Russian MOD | Evidence shows Al-Nusra Front behind Aleppo refugee camp attack, no signs of airstrike - Russian MOD |
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| Thursday's attack on an Aleppo refugee camp could have been carried out by Al-Nusra Front militants, Russia's Defense Ministry says. The damage pattern suggests rocket artillery use, and air control data show no sorties in the area at the time. | |
| "Considering the fracture pattern, seen in the pictures and videos taken at the site, the camp could have been shelled, either intentionally or by mistake, by rocket artillery, which is in active use in the area by militants from the terror group Al-Nusra Front," Major-General Igor Konashenkov, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman, said on Friday. | |
| He added that after analyzing photographs and video footage from the devastated camp available online, it became evident that "there are no airstrike shell craters or other signs of an airstrike." | |
| The Russian Defense Ministry states there were no air sorties over the area of the refugee camp on the day of the attack or on the day prior to it. | |
| "We have analyzed airspace objective control data for the area as of May 4 and 5, 2016. There were no flights of Russian or any other aircraft over the camp area," Konashenkov stressed. | |
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