“During the day, illegal armed groups fired at Aleppo 48 times, as a result of these attacks eight civilians were killed and 22 wounded, including women and children,” RIA Novosti reports the head of the Russian Center for Reconciliation in Syria, Yuri Borenkov.
He noted that as a result of the shelling, three Syrian soldiers were also killed and eight more were injured.
On January 18, it was reported that in Syrian Aleppo, 28 civilians were killed in three days from shelling of militants.