Children among dead in Syria barrel bomb attack

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The video shows a devastating scene: 2 boys coated in mud urgently hold one another and cry.

"My brother is gone," one sobs.
It's one amongst many agonizing videos activists shared when a barrel bomb within the Syrian town of Aleppo killed a minimum of fifteen folks, as well as kids, per 2 teams watching things.
Activists offered differing accounts of what number kids were killed in Thursday's airstrike, that reportedly occurred within the rebel-held Bab al-Nayrab neighborhood. The activist cluster Aleppo Media Center according 5 kids were among the dead; the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights aforesaid eleven kids had died.
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The barrel bomb attack was one amongst 2 deadly attacks Th within the town, activists aforesaid.
Amnesty International says barrel bombs ar a standard plan of action of the Syrian regime. The strikes came amid Russia's agreement to a 48-hour ceasefire and also the United Nations' stress on a necessity for one.
The cluster additionally according eight folks were killed Th, as well as 2 kids, once rebels laid-off mortar rounds into regime-held areas in western Aleppo.
As Aleppo residents mourned the dead Friday, folks fled their homes in another town that activists say the Syrian regime has pounded with barrel bombs.
Residents within the town of Daraya left on buses Friday as a part of associate degree evacuation agreement brokered between the govt and rebels within the destroyed country.

T/H: CNN