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Deadly air strike hits Syrian govt-held Deir al-Zor -state TV, monitor

BEIRUT, Oct 24 (Reuters) An air raid in the government-held Qusur district of Deir al-Zor city in eastern Syria killed more than a dozen people, Syrian state television and a war monitor said on Monday.
State television said jets from a US-led international coalition battling Islamic State carried out the air strike and that it killed 14 civilians and wounded 32 others.
A spokesman for the coalition said on Tuesday it had not carried out such a raid, and that its only strike in the vicinity in recent weeks took place in September across the Euphrates from the city.
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