Syrian air force raids on Saturday killed at least 136 civilians, including 7 women and 14 children, as government extended its intense aerial campaign against rebel-held areas throughout Syria mostly in in the northern province of Aleppo, a monitoring group said.
The first air force raid on a market in ISIS-hled town of al-Bab killed at least 51 people.
The strike on the town northeast of Aleppo, used barrel bombs, which are steel drums full of shrapnel and explosives, the Syrian Network for Human Rights said.
Dozens of people were also wounded in the attack, according to the monitoring group. The town has been the focus of several heavy bombardments by the military since late last year.
A second Syrian air force raid in a rebel-held al-Shaar neighborhood part of Aleppo killed at least 9 civilians on Saturday, SNHR said.
The third barrel bomb attack on al-Ferdous neighborhood killed at least 9 people according to the Network.
Also, 19 civilians were killed in missile attack on Billion village in Idlib province.
Further east in Hassakeh province, Syrian air force strikes Saturday in Al-Shadadi town in the province had killed 43 ISIS fighters and 22 civilians, the Syrian Observatory said
The United Nations strongly condemned the bombing. Staffan de Mistura, the UN's special envoy for Syria, said it was "totally unacceptable that the Syrian air force attacks its own territory in an indiscriminate way, killing its own citizens, as it brutally happened today in Aleppo."
"The use of barrel bombs must stop," he added.
The first air force raid on a market in ISIS-hled town of al-Bab killed at least 51 people.
The strike on the town northeast of Aleppo, used barrel bombs, which are steel drums full of shrapnel and explosives, the Syrian Network for Human Rights said.
Dozens of people were also wounded in the attack, according to the monitoring group. The town has been the focus of several heavy bombardments by the military since late last year.
A second Syrian air force raid in a rebel-held al-Shaar neighborhood part of Aleppo killed at least 9 civilians on Saturday, SNHR said.
The third barrel bomb attack on al-Ferdous neighborhood killed at least 9 people according to the Network.
Also, 19 civilians were killed in missile attack on Billion village in Idlib province.
Further east in Hassakeh province, Syrian air force strikes Saturday in Al-Shadadi town in the province had killed 43 ISIS fighters and 22 civilians, the Syrian Observatory said
The United Nations strongly condemned the bombing. Staffan de Mistura, the UN's special envoy for Syria, said it was "totally unacceptable that the Syrian air force attacks its own territory in an indiscriminate way, killing its own citizens, as it brutally happened today in Aleppo."
"The use of barrel bombs must stop," he added.
Zaman Al Wasl
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