Air raid kills 10 children in Syria School

An air raid on a rebel-held neighbourhood of Syria's main northern city Aleppo hit a school, killing at least 18 people, 10 of them children, Wednesday, a monitoring group said. At least one teacher was also among the dead in the raid on the Ansari district of the former commercial hub, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Amateur video distributed by activists in Aleppo showed rows of bodies of children, some of them bloodied, wrapped in grey body bags on the ground. Aleppo-based citizen journalist Mohammed al-Khatieb told AFP via the Internet that the children were "holding a drawing exhibition when two air strikes, 10 minutes apart, struck the school." Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman said most of the children killed were aged 12 or 13, according to AFP.