Children killed as Assad’s warplanes pound Aleppo

Regime warplanes pounded Syria’s second city Aleppo for a fourth straight day in air raids that have killedat least 135 people, many of them children, a monitor said.

The attacks focused on rebel-held areas of eastern and northern Aleppo, once the country’s commercial hub, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

Sunday’s first day of the raids produced the highest daily toll with 76 dead in six neighbourhoods, among them 28 children, the Britain-based watchdog said.