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Activists and a doctor in the battered rebel-held area of Syria’s Aleppo city say at least 13 people, mostly children, were killed when suspected government helicopters lobbed barrel bombs into a crowded residential area.

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Osama Abo Elezz, a doctor from the rebel-held part of Aleppo, said the barrel bombs fell Thursday in Aleppo’s Bab al-Nayreb district, hitting more than one building. He said the unguided explosives killed 10 children, including a two-month-old baby and a three-year-old girl.

The activist group, the Aleppo Media Center, said at least 13 were killed, posting videos of attempts by doctors in the hospital to rescue the infant.

Abo Elezz, who only left Aleppo Wednesday, said rescue workers were still working to pull survivors from under the rubble. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights put the death toll at 15, including 11 children, and four women.

The discrepancy is common following such violence in the city that has been torn by violence since 2012.