Syria regime raids on Aleppo kill 16 civilians: monitor

The crude, unguided explosive device hit the Qaterji neighbourhood, where an AFP photographer saw a street strewn with rubble as residents ran for safety and a rescuer rushed a bloodied child into an ambulance. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said nine civilians were killed in Qaterji and two others, including a child, were killed in the Mayssar neighbourhood of the northern city.

Another five civilians were killed in two other districts and on the city’s outskirts.In Qaterji a man stood in the middle of a road surrounded by debris and shouting angrily: “There are only civilians here, there are no rebels!” 

 Further down the street two women and two children scrambled for safety past the mangled iron shutters of shops and buildings badly damaged by the barrel bomb, the AFP photographer said. The rescuer, his hair covered in white dust, carried a child with a blood-covered face to an ambulance in which another wounded child already lay.