A 13-year-old girl has died five days after being injured in an artillery attack by the Turkish and jihadist occupying forces in the autonomous region of North and East Syria. The girl died of her injuries on Friday in a hospital in Aleppo, according to hospital sources.

On Sunday, the occupying forces bombed the village of Helîsa in the Fafîn district. Four people, including three minors, were injured. A 40-year-old man, a displaced person from Afrin, died in hospital that same day. Two boys aged 9 and 14 who were injured in the attack have since been able to leave the hospital.

Fafîn is located about 20 kilometres southeast of Tel Rifat and 15 kilometres north of Aleppo. Since the renewal of the social contract of the Democratic Administration of North and East Syria (DAANES), the village has been administratively part of the Afrin-Shehba Canton, where tens of thousands of people took shelter in 2018 after Turkey and its mercenaries from the militia ‘Syrian National Army’ (SNA) attacked Afrin.