He said an SARC warehouse was also hit.
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The air raid by the USA -led coalition killed dozens of Syrian soldiers and led to a harsh verbal attack on Washington by Damascus and Moscow.
Among the victims was Omar Barakat who headed the Red Crescent in the town where the attack occurred, they said. The Red Crescent has lost 54 staff and volunteers in the past six years of conflict.
He said US and Russian officials were meeting in Geneva to try to sort out aid deliveries to Aleppo and other besieged communities.
Badawi says the rescue effort was hampered by the dark and 11 strikes that came while the rescue team was searching for survivors.
The attack plunged Syria’s U.S. -Russia-brokered cease-fire further into doubt. “But the armed terrorist groups didn’t take it seriously and didn’t commit to any of its articles”, the military command statement said.
Konashenkov remarks on Tuesday were reported by the state news agency Tass.
In Moscow, Russia’s Defense Minister strongly denied suggestions – carried by some Syrian activists – that its warplanes hit the convoy.
He says that “everything shown on the video is the direct outcome of the cargo catching fire, and this began in a unusual way simultaneously with militants carrying out a massive offensive in Aleppo”. A helicopter attack on the southern village of Dael killed at least eight people, activists said.
State TV later reported that a Syrian warplane was shot down while carrying out attacks on IS militants in Deir el-Zour province, adding that the pilot was killed.
The convoy, part of a routine interagency dispatch operated by the Syrian Red Crescent, was hit in rural western Aleppo province.
Additionally, Russia is expected to keep their Russian-made Syrian air force planes from attacking opposition controlled areas as part of the arrangement, according to Al-Jazeera.
Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov, a Defense Ministry spokesman, did not direct accuse rebel factions opposing the government of Russian President Bashar al-Assad, a key Russian ally.
“The Russians have the responsibility to refrain from taking such actions themselves but they also have the responsibility to keep the regime from doing it”, one said.
Mr Swanson could not confirm how many people died, but confirmed some of the dead were from Syrian volunteer group Red Crescent.
“Yesterday’s (Monday’s) attack was a flagrant violation of global humanitarian law and it is unacceptable”. He stressed that all parties received notification of the convoy, which was carrying aid for about 78,000 people.
Syrian activists and paramedics had said earlier that the airstrikes killed 12 people.
“At the moment [the] aid operation remains suspended while we assess and reevaluate the situation on the ground, the spokesperson said, adding aid convoys planned”.
Ibrahim Alhaj told The Associated Press on Tuesday that Syrian civilians will pay the price for the decision.
The US strike was “an extraordinary display of American heavy-handedness”, Russia’s ambassador to the UN, Vitaly Churkin, said Saturday.
As a result, the UN’s humanitarian aid agency has announced that all aid convoys in Syria have been suspended.
Jens Laerke, spokesman for the United Nations humanitarian agency, told reporters in Geneva that as an “immediate security measure, other convoy movements have been suspended” following the raid.
The Syrian army and Russian Federation have denied their forces were behind an attack on an aid convoy Monday night near Aleppo, a strike that prompted the United Nations to halt its aid operations in Syria.
“There was an initial lull in violence, but very little aid moved and by the end of the week both sides were fighting again”.
United Nations officials expressed outrage at the strike, noting it had taken them the entire week-long ceasefire just to get everyone to give them permission to come into Aleppo, and it ended up attacked anyhow.
A deadly air strike on a United Nations aid convoy by Syrian or Russian planes calls into question global efforts to salvage a ceasefire, senior USA officials said. The offensive, he said, will last until the area “is no longer a threat” to Turkey. The monitoring group said it was not clear if the jets were Syrian or Russian.
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Abu al-Baraa al-Hamawi, a rebel commander, said the most intense bombardments had taken in place in areas west of Aleppo, the same area where the aid convoy was hit.
