Areas in the western section of Aleppo are witnessing fierce clashes associated with heavy bombardment causing more casualties and injuries
Aleppo Province, The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights:
Areas in the project 1070-apartments, Halab al-Jadidah, Al-Assad Suburb and the outskirts of Menyan at the western and southwest of Aleppo city are witnessing continuous violent clashes, between the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them from Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities against Fath al-Sham Front, the rebel and Islamic Factions and the Islamic Turkestan Party, after a new attack for the sixth day in a row by the last mentioned on the area in order to reach the eastern neighborhoods of Aleppo city and lift the siege of the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them and Russia since their control of Castello road.
The attack today was started by detonating 2 booby trapped vehicles by the factions targeting positions of the regime forces at the outskirts of Halab al-Jadidah and al-Assad Suburb, while the sound of a third explosion was heard in the area, the clashes were accompanied by fierce exchange of shelling with tens of rockets and shells at the clash areas and heavy bombardment by warplanes on the area, in addition to the intensive fall of shells and missiles which were launched by the factions on areas at the neighborhoods of al-Furqan, Hamdaniya, Halab al-Jadidah, al-Zahra, Saif al-Dawleh, the Faculty of Literature and other areas of the western section of Aleppo city, which caused injuries and one of the them is a cameraman of a media team, and also at least 5 were killed including a child and a citizen woman and tens of others were injured, rising to 60 including 20 children and 7 citizen women, the number of people who have been killed since the start of the battle in the 28th of October 2016 until today the 3rd of November 2016, after the fall of hundreds of shells and homemade rockets, while the death toll is expected to rise because there are some people in critical situation, also shells fell on places at Akramiyyeh neighborhood in the western section of Aleppo city, no information about injuries.