5 children dead in air strike on school in Syria's Aleppo

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A Syrian regime air strike hit a school in the main northern city of Aleppo on Sunday killing five children and four other civilians, a monitoring group said.

"Military aircraft struck a school in east Aleppo city and killed five children, three female teachers, and one man," said Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.