(MENAFN- Trend News Agency ) Over 53 civilians have lost their lives and several others sustained injuries when unidentified fighter jets carried out a series of airstrikes against a residential area in Syria's northwestern province of Aleppo, PressTV reported.
The so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that at least 53 civilians, including five children and three women, were killed on Monday, when the military aircraft launched three aerial raids against an outdoor market in the town of al-Atarib, located 25 kilometers west of the provincial capital city of Aleppo.
The Britain-based observatory added that the overall death toll is expected to rise because dozens of people have been wounded or are still missing after the airstrikes.
The development came a day after more than a dozen civilians were killed and several others injured when the US-led coalition purportedly fighting the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group conducted separate aerial attacks in Syria's eastern province of Dayr al-Zawr as well as the northeastern province of Hasakah.
Syria's official news agency, SANA, reported that 10 civilians lost their lives when US-led military aircraft bombarded al-Duwaiji village in the Tal Shaer district of Dayr al-Zawr Province near the border with Iraq.
Separately, six people lost their lives when a residential area of al-Da'ij village in the Hasakah Province was hit by US-led fighter jets.
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