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WHO worker and Iranian adviser among several killed in Syrian air strike

AT LEAST eight people were killed by an air strike on eastern Syria early today.

The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), said the dead included a worker from the World Health Organisation (WHO) as well as an Iranian adviser.

Syrian media confirmed the air attack and said that the eight people killed included an adviser from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp.

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