The children, aged from four to 10, and women were killed Thursday "in barrel bomb strikes by regime helicopters on a home and public hall in the village of Tal Qarrah in the north of Aleppo," the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
The bombing also destroyed civilian property and maimed several people, some of them critically, the Britannia-based Observatory added.
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
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's air force has carried out near-daily strikes against areas under rebel control in the northern province since last December, killing several hundred people, mostly civilians.
Rights groups have repeatedly criticized the use of barrel bombs, which they say fail to discriminate between civilian and military targets.
