Over 80 killed in campus blast in Syria's Aleppo
January 16, 2013  00:08

AFP: More than 80 people were killed when twin explosions rocked Aleppo University today, the governor of Syria's second city, Mohammed Wahid Akkad, and a source at the university hospital said.        

 

"So far there are 82 fatalities and more than 160 wounded in a terrorist attack that targeted students on their first day of exams at the University of Aleppo," Akkad told AFP by telephone.        

 

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that at least 52 people had been killed in the blasts but said the figure could rise dramatically.        

 

As well as students, the campus houses some 30,000 people who have fled homes in areas of the city ravaged by fighting since July last year.

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