10/29/2016 - 02:02 AM
Shelling by Syrian opposition groups killed several children at a school in government-held western Aleppo yesterday, state media and a monitoring group said, just a day after airstrikes on a school in an opposition-held village in Idlib, 50 kilometres away.
The shells hit two neighbourhoods, Syrian state news agency SANA reported: the national school in the Shahaba area, killing three children and wounding more than a dozen, and the other attack killed three people in Hamdaniya.
The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said six children under the age of 16 had been killed in the two attacks, including a baby.
Syria’s largest city before the war, Aleppo has been divided between government and opposition sectors for years.
Wednesday’s airstrikes hit a school in the Haas village in opposition-held Idlib, killing at least 15 school children, an attack that Western countries have blamed on the Syrian military and Russian air force. Moscow has denied involvement.
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