Dozens of people had to be treated for breathing problems in the Syrian battlefront city of Aleppo after regime helicopters dropped barrel bombs on a rebel-held district Tuesday, a monitor said, according to AFP.
In addition, rebel gunfire killed five people in Azamiyeh, a government-controlled area in Aleppo, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
The bombs that left more than 70 people choking and in need of treatment were dropped from helicopters on the Sukkari neighborhood, the Britain-based monitor said, adding most were civilians.
The opposition Aleppo Media Centre charged on its Twitter account that Sukkari was the target of a chlorine attack.
Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman was unable to confirm the claim but said that no one was killed in the strikes. READ MORE
