AAP
April 07, 2013 2:57AM
Nine children and three women are among at least 15 people killed in an air strike on a majority Kurdish district in the Syrian city of Aleppo
NINE children and three women are among at least 15 people killed in an air strike on a majority Kurdish district in the Syrian city of Aleppo.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Saturday the number of fatalities from the attack on the western edges of Sheikh Maksoud may rise as several people had suffered critical injuries.
It is unclear whether any of the casualties were fighters from the Democratic Union Party (PYD), Syria's branch of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), it said.
Reports of the strike come days into fierce fighting pitting Kurdish fighters against troops loyal to President Bashar al-Assad and the arrival of Syrian rebels in the neighbourhood, the Observatory's Rami Abdel Rahman said.
The area targeted by the air strike is under control the PYD's control.
"We can see a clear drive by the army to attack the Kurds in recent days. The PYD is being dragged by the army into Syria's conflict," Abdel added.
Up until now, Syria's Kurds have been split over Syria's bloody revolt, with most trying to maintain neutrality.
Amateur video shot in the neighbourhood and distributed by the Syrian Revolution General Commission, a grass roots network of activists, shows burnt bodies lying in rubble.
The footage was reportedly filmed in the strike's aftermath.
A second video shows a black cloud of smoke and flames rising above the presumed site of the strike.
Women can be heard screaming, while an unidentified cameraman says: "Right next to the PKK's checkpoint, there's corpses on the ground. Bring vehicles for the casualties, quick."
The same video shows a woman scream out as she picks up the body of a young girl from the ground. It also shows the body of a boy lying next to a metal fence as residents rush to place several other children's bodies on the back of a pick-up truck.
Elsewhere in Syria, the air force targeted Al-Hajar al-Aswad in southern Damascus and Qadam in the southwest, said the watchdog.
Al-Hajar al-Aswad was also struck by mortar rounds and rockets, activists in the capital said.
Warplanes also raided Yabrud near Damascus and Qusayr in the central province of Homs, as tanks shelled rebel enclaves in Homs city.
In Damascus, mortar rounds hit Baramkeh in the heart of the city, said the Observatory, as rebels pressed their campaign to break into the regime's key bastion.
Saturday's violence comes a day after at least 94 people were killed across the country - 32 civilians, 36 rebels fighters and 26 soldiers.
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