WATCH ABOVE: Activists and a Kurdish official said militants shelled Kobani on Saturday from nearby positions.
BEIRUT – Activists and state media say rebels in the northern city of Aleppo have fired two mortar shells, hitting a school and killing two and wounding several children.
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State news agency SANA says the attack in Al-Seryan neighbourhood Sunday killed two people and wounded 24. One of the dead and most of the wounded are schoolchildren.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said one of the shells hit the Hoda Shaarawi school; the second shell fell in front of the same school.
Aleppo, once Syria’s commercial capital, has seen heavy fighting since rebels seized part of the city in 2012.
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