Shelling and airstrikes kill 8 in Syrian city of Aleppo

Published June 23, 2016

Staffan de Mistura, left, UN Special Envoy for Syria next to Jan Egeland, right, Senior Advisor to the United Nations Special Envoy for Syria, speaks about the International Syria Support Group's Humanitarian Access Task Force at the European headquarters of the United Nations, in Geneva, Switzerland, Thursday, June 23, 2016. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP) (The Associated Press)

Anti-government activists and Syrian state media are reporting that shelling and airstrikes in different neighborhoods of the divided northern city of Aleppo have killed at least eight civilians.

Syria's state news agency SANA said Thursday four people were killed and four others wounded when rocket shells hit the government-controlled al-Khalidia district in Aleppo.

Meanwhile, the anti-government Aleppo Media center said four civilians were killed when airstrikes hit the rebel-held al-Katerji neighborhood. Bebars Mishal, a member of the Syrian Civil Defense, a team of volunteer first responders operating in rebel-held areas, said the airstrike hit a residence, putting the number of those killed at five members of the same family. He said the search continued for others under the rubble.

Rebels seized part of Aleppo city in 2012.

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