Syria barrel bomb use condemned

Syrian government forces are targeting civilians in barrel bomb attacks in Aleppo that have forced hospitals and schools to move underground, Amnesty International said.

Barrel bombs — containers packed with explosives and projectiles that are dropped from helicopters — killed some 3,000 civilians in the northern Aleppo governorate last year, and have killed more than 11,000 in Syria since 2012, Amnesty said.

“I saw children without heads, body parts everywhere... it was how I imagine hell to be,” one factory worker told Amnesty.