An aid agency says hospitals in the Syrian city of Aleppo have been overwhelmed with casualties after a wave of air strikes which killed more than 100 people in recent days.
A Syrian helps an injured man following an airstrike in Aleppo's Maadi suburb. Photo: AFP
Medecins Sans Frontieres says indiscriminate and sustained attacks by government aircraft had caused significant damage in areas populated by civilians, the organisation warned.
The BBC reports that bodies are being lined up in front of hospitals for collection by relatives.
On Tuesday, warplanes stepped up their air strikes on rebel-held districts.
Eighteen people, including two children, were killed in the Shaar and Maadi areas, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a British-based activist group.
On Sunday, 76 people, including 28 children, died when barrel bombs were dropped on three eastern areas, the group said.
Aitor Zabalgogeazkoa, Medecins Sans Frontieres' co-ordinator in Syria, said that in the past three days, helicopters had been targeting different areas, among them a school and the Haydarya roundabout, where people wait for public transport.
"In both cases, there were dozens of dead and injured people. A dozen bodies were being lined up in front of three hospitals waiting to be recovered by the families," he said.