Fighter jet crash – level 1

10-08-2015 07:00

A plane is in the air. It is a fighter jet. It drops a bomb. The bomb falls on a town. The town is in Syria. After this, the jet crashes.

The jet hits a market. There are a lot of people there. Twenty-seven people die. The crash injures many people.

This town is in the Idlib Province. Fighting is bad there.

Difficult words: fighter jet (a fast plane for war), drop (to let fall), injure (when a thing or a person hurts a person).

You can read the original story and watch the video in the Level 3 section.

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