Syria conflict: Aid convoy attack was air strike, UN expert says

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Image captionThe UN's secretary general denounced the attack as "savage and apparently deliberate"

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Analysis of satellite imagery taken after a deadly attack on an aid convoy in northern Syria last month shows that it was an air strike, a UN expert says.

At least 18 people were killed when lorries unloading at a Syrian Arab Red Crescent warehouse in a rebel-held town outside Aleppo came under fire.

The US believes Russian warplanes bombed the convoy. Russia, which backs Syria's government, denies the charge.

UN officials have said the incident could constitute a war crime.

Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has established an internal board of inquiry to investigate the attack, which he has denounced as "sickening, savage and apparently deliberate".