Airstrike kills 9 in Syria's Aleppo: activists

At least nine people, including five children, were killed Sunday by a Syrian airstrike on a rebel-held area in Syria's northern city of Aleppo, a monitor group reported.

The airstrike targeted the Jamil al-Qabani school in the Ansari neighborhood in Aleppo, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. It added that the death toll could rise due to the large number of critically wounded people.

Separately, a child was killed and many others wounded by an aerial bombardment against the district of Sheikh Khuder in Aleppo, said the Observatory, which relies on a network of activists on ground.

The airstrikes came just a day after the rebels' shelling on government-controlled areas in Aleppo left at least 17 people killed and entire building blocks reduced to rubles in the Sulaimanyieh neighborhood, according to activists and the state news agency SANA.

Aleppo, Syria's second largest city and former economic hub, has emerged as one of the main focal points in Syria's long-running conflict.

The city is divided between the government-controlled areas in the west and the rebel-held ones in the east, with both sides shelling each other on daily basis. Endit