AFP, ALEPPO, Syria: Regime air strikes killed dozens of civilians in the Syrian city of Aleppo and nearby areas Friday as the UN Security Council prepared to discuss emergency aid drops to besieged areas.
The raids were the most intense in more than a week, with dozens of barrel bombs—crude, unguided explosive devices—dropped on several rebel-held eastern districts
of the city, an AFP correspondent said.
Ten people were killed when a bus they were travelling in was hit on the Castello road, a key rebel supply route out of Aleppo, the civil defence said.
Twenty-eight other civilians were killed in regime strikes on several neighbourhoods in the rebel-held east of the city, said the civil defence, known as the White Helmets.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the Castello road was now “effectively cut”.
“All movement is targeted, be that buses or bystanders,” its head Rami Abdel Rahman said.