Malcolm Turnbull slams Russian 'contradictions' while admitting Australian bombs in Syria

By Mark Kenny, Chief Political Correspondent
Updated September 20 2016 - 9:13am, first published 8:24am
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull with Lucy Turnbull visit the 9/11 Memorial in New York.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull with Lucy Turnbull visit the 9/11 Memorial in New York.

NEW YORK: Malcolm Turnbull has acknowledged Australian warplanes were part of an ill-directed airstrike that went wrong in Syria on Saturday killing a claimed 60 Syrian government troops instead of the intended Islamic State fighters, while also threatening a delicate ceasefire in that war-torn country.

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