BEIRUT,
April
28,
2016
(AFP)
–
At
least
38
civilians
were
killed
and
dozens
more
wounded
in
fresh
violence
in
Syria’s
second
city
Aleppo
on
Thursday,
a
monitoring
group
said.
Rebel
rocket
and
artillery
fire
on
government-held
neighbourhoods
killed
18
civilians,
the
Syrian
Observatory
for
Human
Rights
said.
Two
children
were
among
the
dead,
and
about
40
people
were
wounded.
Regime
air
strikes
on
rebel-held
districts,
including
the
heavily
populated
Bustan
al-Qasr
neighbourhood,
killed
20
civilians,
including
thre
civilians,
the
Observatory
said.
An
upsurge
in
fighting
in
Aleppo,
Syria’s
pre-war
commercial
hub,
has
killed
at
least
186
people
since
Friday,
the
Britain-based
group
said.
An
AFP
correspondent
in
the
city
said
the
barrage
of
air
strikes
began
at
around
10
am
(0700
GMT)
and
was
carrying
on
into
the
afternoon.
Rescue
workers
in
the
city
—
known
as
White
Helmets
—
said
they
were
exhausted
by
the
escalation
in
violence.
“We
were
still
working
on
the
air
strikes
from
last
night
in
the
Sukkari
neighbourhood,”
one
volunteer
told
AFP.
Overnight
raids
on
the
rebel-held
neighbourhood
hit
a
hospital
and
a
nearby
block
of
flats
killing
at
least
30
people,
the
White
Helmets
said.
Among
the
dead
was
the
last
paediatrician
still
working
in
rebel
areas
of
the
city.
