(Sky News)- An explosion has rocked eastern Aleppo as people were returning to their homes after the regime assumed full control of the city earlier this week.
New airstrikes on a rebel-held town near Aleppo killed at least five people, state TV reported.
It comes as new video footage reveals the scale of the devastation since it was lost to rebels in 2012.
The film shows streets buried under rubble, buildings collapsed and just about every vehicle burnt out.
The airstrikes show that the Government has resumed military activities after the evacuation of tens of thousands of civilians and rebels from east Aleppo.
President Bashar Assad's forces took control of eastern neighbourhoods of Aleppo on Thursday for the first time since July 2012, marking the Government's biggest victory since the crisis began more than five years ago.
Government forces are now likely to secure the outskirts of the city as rebels are based in the western and southwestern suburbs of Aleppo.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said an airstrike on the town of Atareb to the west, killed five people including a man, his daughter and daughter-in-law.
The Aleppo Media Centre said the airstrikes killed seven people including a woman and two children.
The airstrike at noon on Saturday on Atareb came after attacks on nearby villages the night before killed three rebels, according to the Observatory.
Earlier on Saturday, state TV said the explosion in east Aleppo was caused by a device left inside a school by Syrian rebels, who withdrew from their last remaining enclave under a cease-fire deal after more than four years of fighting. Three people were wounded in the blast.
In the capital Damascus, state news agency SANA said militants blew up the Barada water pipeline in the suburb of Kafr al-Zayt.
The top Roman Catholic cleric in the Holy Land says he is glad that "at least the military war" in the Syrian city of Aleppo is over and that Christians there can celebrate Christmas "without fear".
The Rev Pierbattista Pizzaballa travelled from Jerusalem in a traditional Christmas Eve procession on Saturday ahead of midnight Mass in Bethlehem.
He said he hoped the people of Aleppo could "rebuild the city, not only the infrastructure but also the common relations that was a tradition over there".
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