Twenty children were killed when Syrian government warplanes bombed a mosque in the southern city of Ghariya. The children, aged between 7 and 15, were on their way home from Koran classes at 6.30pm on Tuesday.

Bystanders said that the attack was devastating in its precision. “As soon as the children got out of the mosque, warplanes raided the town. The first raid was near the mosque and a minute later a second raid was right next to it,” a resident named Abu Khaled told The Times. “I saw the bodies of children and their blood scattered in the streets.”

Witnesses said most of the children’s bodies were in pieces, with four small bodies so broken as to be unidentifiable. Videos taken after the