At least 45 people, including women and children, were killed when Assad’s forces dropped a barrel bombs on al-Maysar and al-Sha'ar neighborhoods in Aleppo activists said Friday.
Many houses were destroyed or damaged in Aleppo when the bombs - devices which explode above ground and spray out a cloud of fuel which then ignites to create a second blast wave - detonated on Friday, civil defense groups told the Anadolu Agency.
Rescue workers and residents were continuing to recover dead bodies and attempt to rescue those still alive under debris.
With such air attacks, activists said civilians should try to leave Aleppo.
Barrel bombs are drums packed with explosives and shrapnel, which are then dropped from the sky.
More than 150,000 people have been killed in Syria's three-year-old turmoil, the Observatory said this week. More than 2.6 million people have fled Syria as refugees and another 6 million have been internally displaced by the violence. With World Bullitin
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