An Al Jazeera team in Syria has narrowly survived a suspected Russian air strike as the crew was covering the aftermath of previous air raids in the northern suburbs of Idlib.
Al Jazeera team survives air strike in Syria's Idlib
The journalists were not hurt in Saturday's attack, but a member of a local rescue team was killed and another one was injured.
Al Jazeera's Adham Abu Husam said the crew were in the town of Ihsim reporting on the casualties and destruction caused by two air strikes on the area.
A third strike hit as the team arrived and the rescuers were evacuating the dead.
The attack came amid accusations by Western officials and activists on the ground that many civilians have been killed in the Russian strikes.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a monitoring group based in the UK, said on Saturday that at least 39 civilians and 14 fighters were killed in four days of Russian air strikes.
Russia said the aerial campaign - which began on Wednesday - was aimed against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group and other "terrorist organisations".
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