Aleppo Countryside: makeshift oil refineries bombed repeatedly; perpetrators still unknown
Two Civil Defense volunteers putting fire down following the bombing of the Fuel Market, Jarabulus 23 October 2020 (Civil Defense/Facebook)
On Saturday, 9 January 2020, huge fires were reported in the makeshift oil refineries area, north of Idlib city, caused by bombing the perpetrators of which remain unknown.
A blast in one refinery resulted in a series of explosions in adjacent refineries. As a result, a massive fire broke out, Ibrahim Abu Laith, official of Civil Defense in Aleppo, told
Enab Baladi.
The Civil Defense managed to control the fire after hours of extensive work, Abu Laith added. However, over 10 oil refineries were destroyed.