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Assad regime killed dozens of civilians with air strikes in and around Aleppo city on Friday, even as it agreed to allow access for ground convoys to deliver aid to 12 besieged areas.
The raids on Aleppo were the most intense in more than a month, with dozens of barrel bombs -- crude, unguided explosive devices -- dropped on opposition-held eastern districts of the city, an AFP correspondent said.
Fourteen people were killed when a bus they were travelling in was hit on the Castello road, a key opposition supply route out of Aleppo, the civil defence said.
A Syrian civil defence volunteer speaks with the driver of a bulldozer who is removing rubble following a reported air strike by Syrian government forces, in Aleppo on June 3, 2016
A man wearing medical gloves stood in a room surrounded by white body bags, one with blood seeping through.
Nearly 600,000 people are estimated to live under siege in Syria, mostly encircled by forces of Assad’s regime, whose approval the UN says is needed to deliver aid by air.