At least 15 civilians were killed in a barrel bomb attack on a rebel-held district of Syria\u2019s Aleppo city on Saturday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said.<\/p>\n
The strikes hit \u201cnear a tent where people were receiving condolences for those killed this week in the neighbouring district of Bab al-Nayrab,\u201d Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere was a first barrel bomb and when people gathered and the ambulances arrived, a second barrel struck and there were more deaths,\u201d an AFP reporter in the rebel-held part of the city said.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne ambulance was completely destroyed,\u201d he added, citing the local civil defence unit.<\/p>\n
The Observatory said dozens more were injured in the two strikes and the death toll was expected to rise.<\/p>\n
Saturday\u2019s deadly strikes come after 15 people, among them 11 children, were killed in a barrel bomb attack on Bab al-Nayrab on Thursday.<\/p>\n
The local Shabha Press news agency said 23 people were killed in Saturday\u2019s attack, and published photos showing several of the dead, including a man who appeared to have been riding a motorbike at the time of the strike.<\/p>\n
Most of his bloodsoaked body lay on one side of the overturned bike, but his severed leg lay on the other side.<\/p>\n
Once Syria\u2019s economic powerhouse, Aleppo city has been ravaged by the conflict that began with anti-government protests in March 2011.<\/p>\n
The city has been roughly divided between rebel control in the east and government control in the west since mid-2012.<\/p>\n
Syria\u2019s regime has been accused of regularly using barrel bombs\u2014crude, explosive devices\u2014on rebel-held areas that are home to civilians.<\/p>\n
Other parties to the conflict are not known to have used the weapons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
At least 15 civilians were killed in a barrel bomb attack on a rebel-held district of Syria’s Aleppo city on Saturday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said. The Britain-based group said regime aircraft had dropped two explosive-packed barrel bombs several minutes apart on the Maadi district of eastern Aleppo. The strikes hit “near a tent where people were receiving condolences for those killed this week in the neighbouring district of Bab al-Nayrab,” Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman said. “There was a first barrel bomb and when people gathered<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2085,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2084"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2084"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2086,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2084\/revisions\/2086"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}