DHAKA: Syrian aircraft have killed more than 330 people in a nine-day bombing campaign on Aleppo, with the opposition National Coalition threatening to boycott next month’s planned Geneva peace talks if the attacks continue.

The vicious campaign has seen aircraft drop barrels of TNT on rebel-held neighbourhoods, a tactic widely condemned as unlawful, flooding hospitals with victims, according to activists, medics and others.

‘From December 15 to 22, 301 people have been killed, including 87 children, 30 women and 30 rebels,’ said the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which relies on activists and witnesses on the ground, reports TDS.

It later said 30 people had been killed Monday in attacks on the rebel-held Marjeh and Sukkari districts of Aleppo, once Syria’s commercial capital.

Over the nine days, 99 of the fatalities were children, it said.

BDST: 1402 HRS, DEC 24, 2013
Edited by Robab Rosan, Current Affairs Editor