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25 die in Aleppo airstrikes
ALEPPO: A barrage of airstrikes and shelling on Syria’s second city Aleppo and a town to its west have killed 25 civilians, emergency workers and a monitoring group said Tuesday.The attacks are the latest in a surge of violence in and around the city that has severely tested a February 27 cease-fire. At least two male civilians died in rebel rocket fire on government-controlled areas in the west of the city on Tuesday afternoon, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. In the rebel-held eastern parts, the airstrikes and shelling came down “like rain,” one resident told AFP. Fifteen civilians were killed in air strikes on several rebel-held eastern districts of Aleppo city, the civil defense, known as White Helmets, said. Another three civilians — two women and a child — were killed in government artillery shelling on another eastern neighborhood, they said. “The planes are bombing markets, residential areas... We’re exhausted, we can’t keep up,” a civil defense worker said. Five of their own were killed when the White Helmets headquarters in the town of Al-Atarib, controlled by extremist rebels, was hit by an overnight air strike, the group said on Twitter. It was not immediately clear whether the strike on Al-Atarib, 35 km from Aleppo, was carried out by the Syrian air force or its Russian ally. An ambulance and a fire truck, both damaged, were parked in the bombed-out headquarters, surrounded by rubble and twisted metal frames. A civil defense worker in Aleppo city said he and his colleagues were afraid their local headquarters would also be targeted. Posted by: badanov 2016-04-27 |
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