Syrian regime airstrikes left more than a dozen people dead on Monday in a horrifying attack on a bustling market in Aleppo, the largest city in Syria, according to activists and aid workers based in the embattled city.
A group of local volunteer medics from the Aleppo Civil Defense group documented the recovery efforts on video as they responded with emergency assistance after the brutal attack. It appears the camera is strapped to one of their helmets.
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In the video, medics and civilian bystanders pull badly burned, lifeless bodies from debris scattered along the street as cars and buildings burn in the background.
The injured are placed on stretchers and rushed out of the area.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based monitoring group, reported that 18 people were killed in the attack. However, other local sources put the estimate of those killed much higher. Al-Jazeera reported information from a source on the ground who told their reporters that 32 people were killed in the air strike.
The local activist group Aleppo Media Center which has been providing news from the city since 2011 also confirmed the attack in the al-Shaar neighborhood, held by opposition forces.
عشرات الشهداء والجرحى في قصف صاروخي على سوق رئيسي بحي الشعار http://t.co/wUksL5vdaV pic.twitter.com/ilebUfHgxs— مركز حلب الإعلامي (@AMC_SY) September 21, 2015
The embattled city of Aleppo is the largest in Syria, and prior to the country's brutal civil war was a cultural hub and commercial center in the country's north. But years of clashes have left much of Aleppo in ruins.
Now it is torn between government controled territory in the west of the city and opposition forces who control the east. The city has been divided since 2012.