‘Barrel bomb kills 3 children in Aleppo’

BEIRUT: Three children were among at least 11 civilians killed on Thursday when a Syrian government aircraft dropped a barrel bomb on a rebel-held neighbourhood of Aleppo, a monitoring group said.
The air raid came a day after rebel mortar fire on government-held areas of the northern city killed 38 people, including at least 18 children, drawing UN condemnation.
The crude explosives-filled container caused four buildings to collapse on residents in the rebel-held Saad al-Ansari neighbourhood, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.