At least 33 people have been killed in an air strike that hit a school sheltering displaced people near Islamic State-held Raqqa, a monitor says, and the US-led coalition is believed to have carried out the attack.
Syrian Observatory for Human Rights activists had counted at least 33 bodies at the site of the strike near the village of al-Mansoura, west of Raqqa, Observatory Director Rami Abdulrahman told Reuters.
The air strike took place on Monday night, he said.
The Observatory, citing residents, said that some 40 families, who had fled fighting in the countryside of Raqqa, Homs in central Syria and Aleppo in the north, were living in the school.
The toll brings to 116 civilians, including 18 children, who have been killed in US-led coalition airstrikes in rural Raqqa areas since March 8, the watchdog added.
The alliance started an air campaign against jihadist groups in Syria in September 2014.
Raqqa has been under Islamic State control since 2014.
In November last year, a Kurdish-led alliance, backed by the US, began a major offensive to recapture al-Raqqa from Islamic State.
In recent months, Islamic State has suffered military setbacks and lost territory in Syria and neighbouring Iraq.
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