Activists: Syrian rebel mortars strike school in government-held neighbourhood

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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.

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.