Russia: Al Nusra shelling kills over 40 in Aleppo

Updated - September 16, 2016 10:36 am IST

Published - June 04, 2016 05:36 pm IST - MOSCOW:

More than 40 people have been killed and around a hundred injured by Al Nusra militants shelling in the Syrian city of Aleppo, Russian news agencies cited the Russian ceasefire monitoring centre in Syria as saying on Saturday.

“There was continuous bombardment by rocket launchers, canon artillery, mortars and anti-aircraft installations. The terrorists shelled several areas of the city inhabited not only by government forces and Kurdish troops but also civilians,” TASS news agency quoted a monitoring centre official as saying.

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