At least 27 people have been killed and dozens injured after a Syrian army fighter jet crashed into a busy marketplace in the northwestern town on Ariha.<br /><br /> According to the Britain-based Observatory of Human Rights, most of the dead were civilians resident in the town that fell to Islamist insurgents in May. <br /><br /> It had been one of the government’s last strongholds in Idlib province.<br /><br /> According to eyewitnesses the plane had been flying at a low altitude when it dropped a bomb on the main commercial street before crashing in the marketplace.<br /><br /> It is not clear how the plane came down, but the Observatory believes it was not shot down.<br /><br /> In recent weeks fighting in Idlib province has intensified between an insurgent coalition and government forces, which relies heavily on air-power to bombard rebel held towns in the four-year-old civil war.
