Air strike kills seven members of one family in Aleppo: Rebels

Rebels in Aleppo claim that pro-government air strikes killed seven members of the same family, six of them children, on Saturday morning as pressure grows for a ceasefire in the city.

The local rebel co-ordination committee said the strike, allegedly carried out using a barrel bomb, killed the wife and six children of local media activist Ali Abu al-Jawd when his house in the al-Jaloum district of the Old City was hit on Saturday morning.

Jawd was reportedly not in the house when it was hit.

Monitoring group says that 333 people have been killed in Aleppo in the past three weeks of fighting.