Aleppo situation ‘catastrophic’ after air strikes claim 60 lives

A wave of air strikes and shelling killed more than 60 people in less than 24 hours in the Syrian city of Aleppo, said monitors and activists.

The contested city is one of the main battlegrounds of the country’s devastating civil war, with a ceasefire that has collapsed and peace talks in Geneva stalled.

At least 27 people died as a hospital supported by Doctors Without Borders and the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) and nearby buildings were hit overnight in the rebel-held part of Aleppo.