Eight civilians were killed on Friday in an airstrike on a bus in a rebel-held area of Syria’s northern city of Aleppo, a monitoring group said.
The group, Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said that warplanes believed to belong to the Syrian regime or allied Russia, hit the bus while mounting air raids on Castello Road in Aleppo.
The road is strategically important because it is the only access to opposition-held areas in Aleppo.
In recent weeks, the regime of Syrian President, Bashar al-Assad, has intensified attacks on the road in an attempt to impose a blanket siege on the city’s rebel-controlled areas.
Once Syria’s commercial hub, Aleppo is now divided between the government-held west and the rebel-controlled east. (dpa/NAN)
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