UNICEF: Airstrike on Aleppo water treatment plant affects access for 1.4 million people

Published December 1st, 2015 - 02:30 GMT
Access to clean drinking water has been an ongoing struggle for Aleppo residents. (AFP/File)
Access to clean drinking water has been an ongoing struggle for Aleppo residents. (AFP/File)

According to Reuters, UNICEF is reporting that over 1.4 million people have limited access to water after a water treatment plant in Aleppo was bombed on Thursday.

Initially, 3.5 million people lost water supplies when al-Khafseh water treatment plant was bombed. The plant has returned to partial operating power. 

"In Syria, the rules of war, including those meant to protect vital civilian infrastructure, continue to be broken on a daily basis," UNICEF's representative in Syria, Hanaa Singer, said in a statement, Reuters reports.

"The air-strike which reportedly hit al-Khafseh water treatment plant in the northern city of Aleppo last Thursday is a particularly alarming example," Singer continued.

Aleppo's civilians have been hit particularly hard by Syrian regime airstrikes, with hospitals and residential areas becoming increasingly frequent targets for barrel bombs.

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