In Pictures: Syrians suffer as air strikes rain on Aleppo

More than 200 civilians have been killed in just the past week in Aleppo as rebel and regime forces traded blows. Air strikes on flats and medical facilities in rebel-held neighbourhoods have turned homes and hospitals into rubble. Tragedy has become part of daily life, as these powerful images show.

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Apr 29, 2016, 09:52 PM

A Syrian boy is comforted as he cries next to the body of a relative who died in an air strike on Wednesday, April 27, 2016, in the rebel-held neighbourhood of al-Soukour in Aleppo.
PHOTO: AFP

Burnt vehicles in front of the damaged Medecins Sans Frontieres-backed al-Quds hospital, after it was hit by air strikes, in a rebel-held area of Aleppo. PHOTO: REUTERS

A Syrian civil defence member carrying a wounded woman into a hospital in the government-controlled side of Aleppo following fighting between regime forces and rebels on Thursday, April 28, 2016. PHOTO: AFP

Syrians evacuating an injured man amid the rubble of destroyed buildings after an air strike on the rebel-held neighbourhood of Al-Qatarji in Aleppo on Friday, April 29, 2016. PHOTO: AFP

An injured woman at the site of air strikes in Old Aleppo on Thursday, April 28, 2016. PHOTO: REUTERS

Syrians evacuating a toddler from a destroyed building after an air strike on the al-Kalasa neighbourhood in Aleppo on Thursday, April 28, 2016. PHOTO: AFP

A Syrian family walking amid the rubble of destroyed buildings after an air strike on Thursday, April 28, 2016. PHOTO: AFP

Syrian civil defence volunteers evacuating people from a damaged building after an air strike on April 23 in the Tareeq al-Bab neighbourhood in Aleppo. PHOTO: AFP

People inspecting the damage at the site of air strikes in the rebel-held area Bustan al-Qasr in Aleppo on Thursday, April 28, 2016. PHOTO: REUTERS

Syrian civil defence volunteers and rescuers removing a baby from under the rubble of a destroyed building in the al-Kalasa neighbourhood of Aleppo on Thursday, April 28, 2016.
PHOTO: AFP

A man amid the rubble of destroyed buildings after an air strike on the rebel-held neighbourhood of al-Kalasa in Aleppo. PHOTO: AFP

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