At least 19 civilians
were killed and scores injured in airstrikes carried out by Syrian
regime and Russian warplanes in Syria’s northern Aleppo city on
Saturday, according to a local civil defense official.
Ibrahim
Abu Laith told Anadolu Agency that Syrian regime and Russian aircraft
had bombed several residential areas in Aleppo city.
“Nineteen civilians were killed and 55 others injured, including children and women,” he said.
Abu Laith said that civil defense teams were struggling to extract civilians from under the rubble.
Aleppo has seen an uptick in airstrikes in recent days,
coinciding with fierce clashes on the ground between armed opposition
groups and regime forces on Aleppo’s outskirts as the latter attempt to
tighten their grip on the besieged city.
On Friday, Syrian regime and Russian planes struck opposition-held areas in Aleppo, killing 16 people and injuring 21 others.
UN
Emergency Relief Coordinator Stephen O’Brien warned on Thursday that up
to 300,000 people are at risk of besiegement in Aleppo.
Syria
has been locked in a vicious civil war since early 2011, when the Assad
regime cracked down on pro-democracy protests -- which erupted as part
of that year’s "Arab Spring" uprisings -- with unexpected ferocity.
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