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DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syrian state media says at least seven civilians have been killed in the city of Aleppo amid shelling from rebel-held areas in the country’s northwest.
The shelling Thursday targeted several neighborhoods in Syria’s second largest government-controlled city. A reporter from state-run Al-Ikhbariya TV who visited the city’s hospitals said 30 others were wounded.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war monitor, said at least six were killed in the shelling by rebel groups who live on the western outskirts of the city and in opposition-controlled Idlib Province.
The intense shelling comes a day after government troops bombed a displaced people’s camp in rebel-held areas, killing at least 15 people, including six children, effectively shattering a three-month fragile truce in the area.
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