Rebel fire kills 21 in Syria's Aleppo
Rebel mortar fire on government-held districts of the Syrian
city of Aleppo killed at least 21 people and wounded 50 on Sunday, a monitoring
group said.
"The fire targeted regime-held neighbourhoods,
including some in the Old City where the rebels are trying to advance,"
the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Aleppo is divided between government and opposition control,
and both rebel bombardments and regime air strikes have intensified in recent
weeks.
Sunday's mortar fire came as "Islamist rebel brigades
blew up a building housing the Chamber of Industry in the Old City, which was
being used as a headquarters by government forces," the Observatory said.
There were casualties among the the troops inside the
building, it added without giving a precise toll.
State television said "terrorist groups have blown up
several buildings... including the Chamber of Industry."
Government aircraft dropped barrel bombs on several
opposition-held districts, including Baidine, where six people were killed, the
Observatory said.
Elsewhere in the country, government troops recaptured a
guard post near the town of Samra in Latakia province, the heartland of
President Bashar al-Assad's Alawite community, the state SANA news agency said.
Fighting was continuing inside the town, which opposition
fighters captured last month, the Observatory said.
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees UNRWA meanwhile said
it had carried out a fourth day of aid distribution in the Yarmuk camp in south
Damascus after a two-week suspension.
The agency said it had delivered parcels to 466 families,
noting the "presence of large crowds of desperate civilians."
There are around 18,000 people in Yarmuk, trapped by a
government siege and continued clashes between the army and opposition forces
inside the camp.
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