Air strikes kill 12 in Syria's Aleppo
Air strikes killed at least 12 civilians including children in two rebel-held neighbourhoods of Syria's Aleppo city on Thursday, a monitoring group said.
Nine people were killed in the Tariq al-Bab area, and another three in the district of Salhin, both in eastern Aleppo, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported.
The Britain-based group said it was unclear whether the strikes were carried out by warplanes of the Syrian government or its ally Russia.
In Tariq al-Bab, civil defence workers sifted through debris looking for survivors.
The work proceeded slowly because of ongoing air strikes in the area, each raid forcing the workers to scatter and shelter in nearby buildings.
An older woman sat on the pavement watching the workers dig through the remains of a pancaked building.
"One of my children has been rescued but another one is still underneath the rubble," she told AFP.
Nearby, a distraught Mohamed Qattan dug through debris with his bare hands.
"My family are beneath the rubble," he said, calling out to them in the hope of hearing a reply.
"I was praying at the mosque when the strike happened. My wife and two of my children -- my son and daughter -- are underneath the rubble," he told AFP.
In Salhin, the strikes also wrought destruction, with video obtained by AFP of the aftermath showing smoke billowing from the front of a multi-storey building shorn of its facade.
The charred skeleton of a car, its windows blown out, sat in front of the building.
Civil defence workers battled a fire sparked by the attack, while civilians with ladders retrieved belongings from the ruins.
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