The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

More than 250 killed in Aleppo bombings

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At least 257 people have been killed in “barrel bomb” attacks on eastern Aleppo since Saturday, AFP reported Thursday (February 6th).

The dead include at least 76 children, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, while hundreds more have been wounded in the raids.

The heavy casualty toll has sparked a mass exodus from the worst-hit neighbourhoods in the east of the city.

The regime bombing has prompted thousands of civilians to flee across the border to Turkey, or seek refuge in the government-held part of Aleppo, with much of the surrounding province engulfed in fighting between opposition forces and the “Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant”.
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