At least 38 people, including 14 children, were killed on Tuesday when Syrian insurgents shelled three government-held neighborhoods in western Aleppo, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
"More than 150 people were wounded. This is one of the highest death tolls caused by rebel shelling on regime areas in the city," Rami Abdelrahman, the head of the Observatory, told Reuters.
He said insurgents bombarded the neighborhoods with dozens of mortars and rockets.
In retaliation regime air strikes have killed mote than 10 civilians in rebel-held neighborhoods, activists said.
Activists say the Syrian military frequently uses helicopters to drop crude barrel bombs - giant canisters packed with hundreds of pounds of explosives and scrap metal - on rebel-held towns and neighborhoods.
President Bashar al-Assad has denied that barrel bombs are used by the military.
Al-Shamiya Front said its air defense battalion had downed early Tuesday a Syrian army helicopter near al-Nayrab airport north of Aleppo, the key rebel group said in statement.
Abu Hassan ,rebel commander told Zaman al-Wasl that the helicopter was filled by food and basic staples for the besieged soldiers in Nayrab airport for over three years.
Abu Hassan said the wreckage of the helicopter downed inside the airport fences.
Zaman Al Wasl
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