8:33pm UK, Wednesday 24 April 2013
Sky NEWS
Each side in Syria's civil war blames the other as the centuries-old minaret of the Umayyad Mosque in Aleppo is reduced to rubble.
How the minaret looked before it was destroyed
The minaret of a landmark 12th century mosque has collapsed in the clashes between Syrian rebels and forces loyal to President Bashar al Assad.
The minaret was in the heart of Aleppo's Old City, a United Nations world heritage site, and stood in the Umayyad Mosque.
Fighting has ravaged the Old City's stone-vaulted alleyways for months and much of the historic Sunni mosque has been greatly damaged.
The once-soaring tower dominated Aleppo's landscape
Each party has blamed the other for destroying the minaret.
Syria's state news agency SANA said rebels from the al Qaeda-linked Jabhat al Nusra group had blown it up, while anti-government activists said a Syrian army tank fired a shell that destroyed the once-soaring stone tower.
The AP news agency said an amateur video by the anti-government Aleppo Media Centre activist group shows the mosque's archways, charred from earlier fighting, and a pile of rubble where the minaret used to be.
The mosque fell into rebel hands earlier this year while the area around it remains contested, with Syrian troops only about 200 metres away from the compound.
The destruction in Aleppo, in the north of the country, follows a similar incident in the southern city of Daraa, where the minaret of the historic Omari Mosque was destroyed more than a week ago.
Syria's civil war, now in its third year, has cost more than 70,000 lives and has also damaged or destroyed many archaeological and architectural treasures.
Read more: http://news.sky.com/story/1082573/syria-minaret-of-famous-mosque-destroyed
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