A Syrian government air raid struck a school in an opposition-held neighborhood in the northern city of Aleppo on Sunday, killing at least ten people, including five children, activists said.
The Aleppo Media Center and the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the air raid hit the opposition-held Ansari neighborhood, AP reported.
Syrian Civil Defense officials of Aleppo called on citizens to stay in their shelters and basements to avoid Syrian regime's aerial bombardment as the death toll of Saturday air strikes rose to 50 people at least.
Also, Insurgents bombarded a government-held part of Syria's second city Aleppo overnight, killing at least eight people, Syrian state media reported.
Aleppo, near the Turkish border, is a major frontline in the Syrian war. Rebel groups in and around the city have repelled repeated attempts by the Syrian army and militia fighting with it to cut supply lines from Turkey to the rebels.
Syria's Grand Mufti Ahmed Badr al-Din al-Hassoun, speaking on state TV, urged the complete destruction of insurgent-held areas from which shells were being fired.
"We inform the civilians there, be they supporters (of the insurgents), or not, to leave the area. Every area from which a shell is fired, should be completely destroyed," he said, according to Reuters.
Rebel-held parts of Aleppo have faced regular air strikes by the Syrian military. A U.N. commission of enquiry on Syria has recorded the intense use of barrel bombs - improvised bombs dropped by helicopter - by government forces in the city.
Rebels have also made use of improvised shells to bombard government-held areas. So-called "hell cannons" fire shells comprising a cooking gas cylinder. It was not clear what type of weapon had been used in their latest attack.
Zaman Al Wasl
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