Regime bombardment on northwestern Syria killed at least seven civilians including children on Tuesday, a monitor said, a day after dozens were killed in raids targeting the opposition bastion.
The Syrian regime and its Russian ally have stepped up their deadly bombardment of the Idlib region and adjacent areas in Aleppo and Hama provinces since late April.
Three children were among seven civilians killed in Tuesday's air strikes and artillery fire in Aleppo and Idlib provinces, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
It came a day after regime and Russian air strikes killed 57 people in northwestern Syria.
Thirty-eight of them perished in raids on a vegetable market and surrounding areas in the town of Maaret al-Numan in Idlib province.
The jihadist-run Idlib region is home to some three million people and is supposed to be protected by a months-old international truce deal.
The spike in violence since late April has killed more than 700 civilians, including more than 170 children, according to the Observatory.
More than 330,000 people have fled violence in the area over the past three months, according to the United Nations.
In a new death toll, White Helmets rescuing group said at least 267 of its workers have been killed in attacks since 2012.
Since April 26, four civil defense workers were killed in regime attacks on Idlib de-escalation zone. The deceased include Anas Diyab, a White Helmets member and a freelance journalist for Anadolu Agency.
In the past three months, the White Helmets managed to rescue at least 722 civilians, including 432 children, mostly in Idlib.
Mark Cutts, UN deputy regional humanitarian coordinator for the Syria crisis, described a worsening "nightmare" unfolding in Idlib.
"Today saw one of the deadliest attacks on civilian areas that we have seen since the upsurge in fighting began almost three months ago," he said in a Monday statement.
Syria's war has killed more than 560,000 people and displaced millions since it started in 2011 with a brutal crackdown on anti-regime protests.
Zaman Al Wasl, Agencies
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