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1st LD Writethru: UN chief slams reported air attacks on eastern Aleppo

Xinhua, November 21, 2016 Adjust font size:

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Sunday condemned "the reported intense air assault over the last several days that has killed and maimed scores of Syrian civilians, including children, and left eastern Aleppo without functioning hospitals."

The secretary-general, in a statement issued here by his spokesman, also condemned "the indiscriminate shelling that has been reported in areas of Aleppo governorate and the western parts of Aleppo city, including strikes on schools said to have killed a number of children."

"The secretary-general reminds all parties to the conflict that targeting civilians and civilian infrastructure is a war crime," the statement said. "He calls on all sides to immediately cease any such attacks."

"Those responsible for these and other atrocities in Syria, whoever and wherever they are, must one day be brought to account," said the statement.

The secretary-general also called on all the parties to ensure freedom of movement of civilians and immediate unhindered access to humanitarian assistance, the statement added.

A total of 110 people have been killed over the past 24 hours in air raids in Syria's northern city of Aleppo, reports said Thursday.

SkyNews Arabia TV cited activists as saying that 90 civilians had been killed by Russian and Syrian aerial shelling on rebel-held areas in eastern Aleppo.

Another 20 civilians were reportedly killed by shelling that targeted the town of Batabo in the western countryside of Aleppo. Enditem