Air strikes on Syria's Aleppo kill 25
April 23, 2016 01:16
Air strikes on rebel-held neighbourhoods in Syria's second city Aleppo today killed at least 25 people and wounded more than 40, emergency workers said.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which said regime warplanes carried out the air strikes, earlier gave a toll of 19 dead but said this was likely to rise.
An AFP correspondent in the opposition-held eastern part of the city said several districts were targeted including Bustan al-Qasr, Al-Mashad and Salhin.
Late today, two barrel bombs also hit the southern district of Bab al-Nayrab, killing an ambulance driver.
"It was a bloody, black day in Aleppo, with aircraft not leaving the sky," Bibres Mashaal, the head of civil defence in Bab al-Nayrab, said.
"Twenty-five air strikes where launched on the city, as well as barrel bombs," he said, adding they targeted residential neighbourhoods and main roads.
"Today the civil defence was fully mobilised and there were also fires," Mashaal said.
Civil defence workers also reported three people killed by artillery fire in Bustan al-Qasr, one of Aleppo's most heavily populated neighbourhoods.
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