AMMAN, Jordan
(AP) -- Government troops fired mortar rounds that slammed into a main
market in a town in northern Syria on Sunday, killing at least 20
civilians, activist groups said.
The mortar
shells struck the town of Ariha, which is held mostly by opposition
fighters, a few hours ahead of iftar, the meal that breaks the
dawn-to-dusk fast during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
The
U.K.-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the Local
Coordination Committees, two opposition groups tracking the violence in
Syria, said at least 20 people were killed including two children and
two women. It was not immediately clear what triggered the shelling.