Syrian cyber activists have circulated
online a photo for 10-year-old wounded girl in border Turkish hospital, was
injured due to the ongoing Assad offensive on Aleppo by barrel bombs.
The girl and her father, who missed
her during the shelling, were the only family members who survived from
imminent death.
At least 100
people, including children, were killed on Sunday when Syrian army helicopters
dropped improvised "barrel bombs" in the northern province of Aleppo,
local activists said.
Human Rights Watch said in a report over
the weekend that barrel bomb attacks had killed scores of civilians in Aleppo
in the last month. It described the attacks as illegal and said they had hit
residential and shopping areas.
"The Syrian air force is either
criminally incompetent, doesn't care whether it kills scores of civilians, or
deliberately targets civilian areas," HRW senior emergency researcher Ole
Solvang said in the report.
Barrel bombs are explosive-filled
cylinders or oil drums that are often rolled out of the back of helicopters
with little attempt at striking a particular target. They are capable of
causing widespread casualties and significant damage.
Bashar al-Assad's forces, battling rebels
in a 2 1/2-year conflict that has killed more than 126,000 people, frequently
deploy air power and artillery against rebel-held districts across the country.
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