A UK-based monitoring group, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said Friday that more than 1,000 people have died in airstrikes and shelling across Aleppo and surrounding areas since a short-lived US and Russian-brokered ceasefire broke down on September 19. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which monitors the war, confirmed the bombing but could not confirm that chlorine gas was used. The Syrian government forces have used chlorine gas bombs – made by oil drums filled with high explosives and dropped from helicopters – at least three times during the war, the United Nations found, although government officials deny the charge. An army offensive backed by a major aerial bombardment from late September to late October killed hundreds, according to the United Nations, and tightened the siege, leaving eastern Aleppo with little food, medicine or fuel. "For the first time, eastern Aleppo is out of hospitals operating at full capacity," said Dr. Mazen Kewara, director of the Syrian American Medical Society's Turkey office. BEIRUT (Reuters) - Rebel shelling killed eight children at a school in the government-held part of Aleppo on Sunday and a barrel bomb killed a family of six in the rebel-held area, part of a heavy government bombardment that has knocked out all the hospitals.
Six people are killed in a suspected chlorine gas attack in Aleppo, Syria.