Regime barrel bomb attack kills 20 in Aleppo

At least 20 people were killed in a regime barrel bomb attack on a minibus stand in a rebel-held part of Syria’s Aleppo city, a monitor group says.

“Helicopters committed a massacre, dropping a barrel bomb on a minibus station in the Fardous district of Aleppo, killing 20 civilians, among them children, and injuring 30 more,” the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights group says.

The monitor says the toll is expected to rise because of the number of serious injuries among the wounded. Most of bodies of those killed “were charred,” the group says.

Video footage distributed by activists and posted on YouTube shows rubble and twisted scraps of metal strewn across the cratered pavement where the station was, underneath a bridge.

A second video showed several men hoisting a male victim missing a large section of the back of his torso onto an orange stretcher and into an ambulance. It was unclear whether he was still alive.

— AFP