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Report says airstrike kills 12 children in Syria's Aleppo

Xinhua, January 11, 2016 Adjust font size:

Twelve school children were killed on Monday in an airstrike on a school in Syria's Aleppo province, a monitor group reported.

The air raid targeted the school in the town of Ankara in the countryside of Aleppo, said the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which says it relies on activists on the ground inside Syria.

The pro-opposition Observatory report, which said the raid was conducted by Russian aircraft, cannot be independently verified. Endit