At least 29 people were killed on Saturday in Syrian regime
air strikes on the northern city of Aleppo and surrounding areas, the Syrian
Observatory for
Human Rights said.
Syria's second city and onetime commercial hub has seen
intense fighting for more than a year between President Bashar al-Assad's
troops and rebels fighting to overthrow him, with both sides having carved out
enclaves among the ruins.
The Britain-based monitoring group said at least 14 people
had been killed in Aleppo city's eastern Tariq al-Bab district.
Another 15 people, including a woman and a child, were
killed in four air strikes in the nearby town of Al-Bab and the area of Tadef,
the Observatory said.
Video posted online by Syrian activists showed chaos at the
scene of the Tariq al-Bab strikes, with dozens of people picking through the
rubble of a partially collapsed building and ambulance sirens sounding.
Local residents could be seen throwing buckets of water onto
a charred car still in flames.
More than 120,000 people have been killed in Syria's bloody
conflict, which began after the government cracked down on anti-government
protests that started in March 2011.
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