DHAKA: Fifteen people, among them eight children, were killed in air raids Sunday on a rebel area of the war-torn northern city of Aleppo.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, reports daily Hurriyet.

The Britain-based Observatory also reported that at least 28 people have been killed in Adra, northeast of Damascus, since rebels launched an offensive there Wednesday.

‘Fifteen people, including six men, an 18-year-old and eight children were killed in an aerial bombardment of the Ard al-Hamra neighbourhood’ of Aleppo, it said.

The Aleppo Media Centre, an activist network on the ground, reported several helicopter attacks on rebel areas of the city, once Syria’s economic hub.

The helicopters, said the group, dropped explosive-laden barrels on several neighbourhoods, causing widespread destruction.

Also in Aleppo, the Syrian Red Crescent on Saturday delivered food and medicine to the central prison, which has been under rebel siege for eight months.

BDST: 1816 HRS, DEC 15, 2013
Edited by: Robab Rosan, Current Affairs Editor