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Emergency service workers in Eastern Aleppo on Monday, said that 14 members of one family were killed in an air strike in the wake of renewed violence in the area.

Reports say it happened as the Syrian Government pursued its drive to capture opposition-held areas of the city.

A list of those killed in the city, published by the Civil Defence, included several infants, among them two six-week old babies and six other children aged eight and below.

The report says, a rescue service operating in rebel-held areas of Syria whose workers are known as “White Helmets”, identified the jets as Russian the attack hit Aleppo’s al-Marjeh area.

Later in the day, separate air strikes on the village of Awaijel west of Aleppo killed at least 23 people and the toll was expected to increase, Syrian Human Rights monitoring group reported.

The Syrian government’s Moscow-backed campaign had killed several 100 people since it started last month after the collapse of a truce brokered by Russia and the U.S.

The report said it had documented the deaths of 448 people in air strikes in eastern Aleppo since then, including 82 children.

The Syrian and Russian armed forces say they only target militants.

Since the campaign was announced on Sept. 22, the government had captured territory from rebels to the north of Aleppo and reported advances in the city itself.

Rebels have in turn said they have mostly repelled those reported advances in the city.

A Syrian military source said the army had targeted terrorists in three areas of Aleppo, killing seven of them the government refers to all rebel fighters as terrorists.

The report said that additional 17 people were killed in attacks by Russian jets on Sunday night in the al-Qarterji district of rebel-held Aleppo which included five children.

The monitoring group also said it had recorded the deaths of 82 people including 17 children in government-held areas of western Aleppo as a result of rebel shelling. (Reuters/NAN)