Syrian air raid near school kills 4 children

BEIRUT: Syrian activists say a government airstrike near a school in the northern city of Aleppo has killed at least seven people, including children.
The Aleppo Media Center activist group and the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights say the strike Sunday hit Aleppo’s Seif Al-Dawla neighborhood. The Observatory put the death toll at seven, including four children.
An AFP correspondent described buildings in ruins and small bulldozers working to clear the rubble.
Classroom walls had completely collapsed, exposing mangled chairs and desks, and men carried whatever books they could save out of the building.
The Aleppo Media center said at least 10 people were killed and around 20 wounded. Differences in death tolls are common in Syria in the chaotic aftermath of attacks.
In one video posted on the Aleppo Media Center’s Facebook page, rescuers carried a young boy and a man — both badly bloodied and covered in dust — to a waiting ambulance. The video appeared genuine and corresponded to other Associated Press reporting.