Air raids on rebel-held districts of Syria’s battleground second city of Aleppo killed at least 21 civilians including children on Saturday, a monitor said.
“Eleven civilians, including four children, were killed by air raids after midnight in the Bab al-Nasr area of Old Aleppo, and seven others were killed in Fardous neighbourhood,” the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Two people including a young girl were killed in the Maadi district, and another civilian died in bombardment on Bustan al-Qasr, the Britain-based monitor said.
The Observatory, which relies on a network of sources across Syria for its information, warned that the toll could rise due to the number of critically wounded.
“At least 20 people are still under the rubble,” said Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman.
An AFP correspondent at the scene said helicopters and fighter jets were still circling rebel-held neighbourhoods, adding that barrel bombs — crude, unguided explosive devices — had been dropped on several areas.
A hospital in the Maadi neighbourhood was hit in the bombing, wounding some of the staff and patients inside.
“All kinds of weapons were used to bomb the hospital, from midnight until about 11:00am. Now it’s unusable,” Mohammad Kheir, one of the doctors there, told AFP.
“There were some injuries among the medical staff but thankfully they are only light wounds.”
A crying woman clad in a black robe desperately grasped the leg of a bloodied young man as doctors treated him on the hospital floor.
Twisted metal frames and damaged medical equipment lay strewn across the room, some next to small pools of blood.
The Observatory said rebel fighters shelled government-controlled western areas of Aleppo, but had no immediate word on any casualties.
Aleppo city is divided roughly between government control in the west and rebel control in the east.
It was once Syria’s commercial powerhouse but has since been ravaged by the country’s five-year war.
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