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At least 49 civilians, including six children, were killed Monday in Syrian government airstrikes on a town in Idlib province, an activist group said, The Daily Star reports.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the raids hit a square in the town of Janudiah, in the west of the province, which is now almost completely controlled by opposition forces.

“It’s a public square, and a lot of people gather there because there are shops,” Observatory director Rami Abdel-Rahman said.

He told AFP that people displaced from other areas of Idlib province had also sought refuge in Janudiah. Regime military aircraft fired missiles on the town, he said.

Other, anti-regime sources, such as the Civil Defense branch active in Idlib province, said at least 60 people were killed in the strikes, with around 120 others wounded.