Resident of Aleppo, Syria are picking through the rubble of their destroyed neighbourhood after a weekend of bombings reportedly left dozens dead, including 16 children. <br /><br />Syrian government helicopters are reported to have dropped barrels stuffed with explosives on nine different residential areas.<br /><br />These are the worst bombing raids on the rebel held city for six months. <br /><br />One rescue worker said they are having a hard time getting to victims in the rubble: “We don’t have any equipment. We do everything with our hands.”<br /><br />Two years of street-to-street fighting between government and rebel forces, has left many parts of Aleppo in ruins.<br /><br />However, with recent winter weather fighting had quietened down; that is; until this past weekend. <br /><br />The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a London-based monitoring group, said on Sunday that at least 22 people had been killed in the raids. By early evening local residents put the death toll at more than 50.
