Airstrikes in opposition areas of Syria’s northern Aleppo province struck a market, a hospital and a village on Friday, killing at least 18 people, including children and two hospital staffers, activists and rescue workers said.
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Gareth Bayley, the UK’s special representative to Syria, described the news of the attack as “worrying” on Twitter.
The ministry made no mention of any strikes in Idlib.
Russian warplanes have been conducting airstrikes against rebel forces to aid Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime for almost a year.
Doctors said the bombardment of health facilities was becoming so frequent that civilians were becoming afraid of going to hospital. He died in an airstrike on a rebel-held area of Aleppo on Thursday, group spokesman Abed Abdulrahman told NBC News by telephone. No Syrian government official would talk to us about the hospital bombing – not even to deny it.
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The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported said Saturday’s airstrikes on opposition areas in Aleppo city and surrounding countryside killed 40 civilians.
The air raids hit the only hospital for women and children in the town of Kafr Hamra before dawn, killing two staffers, including a nurse.
Despite calls for a cease-fire and Russia’s promise of a three-hour daily respite from airstrikes to allow in humanitarian aid, there has been no letup in the violence.
“Humanity lost another hero”, the Syria Campaign said.
But rebels and government forces clashed in southern Aleppo, including during the period when the pause was meant to take hold, said SOHR. Aleppo, a rebel stronghold, has been the target of numerous strikes.
An AFP correspondent in the east said trucks carrying food were unable to enter the city because of intense bombardment.
An estimated 1.5 million people live in the city, including about 250,000 in rebel-held districts.
The sources, who spoke to Anadolu Agency on condition of anonymity due to restrictions on speaking with the media, said that the shelling caused great destruction, adding that civil defense teams are still working to clear rubble to reach possible survivors.
Washington also expressed concern over the reports, which it said would be in violation of a 2013 United Nations resolution to dismantle the Syrian government’s chemical weapons arsenal.
The Observatory said women and children were among those killed.
Syria’s conflict erupted in March 2011 and has since killed more than 290,000 people and drawn in world powers on all sides.
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Russian Federation said the raids destroyed a “chemical weapons factory” as well as a weapons storage facility and IS training camp.
