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Saturday 30 April 2016

Aleppo onslaught: 'Everyone expects it to get worse'

The Syrian government has carried out more than a dozen fresh air strikes in Aleppo as the death toll from more than a week of escalating violence continues to soar, according to local sources. 
The strikes hit residential neighbourhoods across the opposition-controlled eastern part of the city on Saturday morning, though no immediate information about the number of deaths and injuries was available. 

Is Syria's army gearing up for all-out Aleppo assault?
"As I'm talking to you, we can hear air strikes," Zouhir Al Shimale, a local journalist, told Al Jazeera by telephone, adding that Saturday morning's strikes hit the areas of Bustan al-Qasr, Zobdia, Ansare, Jazmate and Kalasa. 
The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights estimates that at least 244 civilians, including 43 children and 27 women, were killed since violence between government forces and rebel groups flared on April 22. 
On Friday night, government forces carried out air strikes in the eastern part of the city, while rebels fired mortars into residential areas into the western, government-controlled side. see more >> http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/04/aleppo-syria-160430070131693.html

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