More than 300 civilians dead in Aleppo violence
 

ALEPPO, Syria: More than 300 civilians have been killed in a three-week surge of fighting and bombardment in Syria’s devastated Aleppo city, a monitoring group said on Saturday.

The battle for Syria’s second city has killed 333 civilians since July 31, when rebels launched a major push to break a government siege of districts under their control.

The toll includes 165 civilians -- among them 49 children -- killed in opposition fire on the city’s government-held western districts.

A**ther 168 civilians died in Russian and regime air strikes and shelling on its rebel-controlled eastern neighbourhoods, the Observatory said.

Russia has been carrying out air raids in support of President Bashar al-Assad’s forces in Syria since September 2015.

A**ther 109 people were killed in bombardment across the rest of Aleppo province during the same period, the Britain-based monitoring group said.

Approximately 250,000 people live in the city’s eastern districts, while a**ther 1.2 million live in its western neighbourhoods.

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