At least 90 people have been killed in overnight air strikes by the Syrian government and Russian forces across Syria, according to monitors and opposition activists.
Most people were killed around Aleppo province, where more than 300,000 civilians are trapped in rebel held territories, reports Aljazeera.
The air raids hit the only hospital for women and children in the town of Kafr Hamra, killing two staffers, including a nurse, while 10 people were rescued from the rubble, the Syrian Civil Defence said.
Air strikes also hit a market in the nearby town of Urem al-Kubra, killing at least six people, according to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR).
Urem al-Kubra lies on the road linking Aleppo to the northern rebel-controlled province of Idlib, which has also seen intense bombing.
‘This is one of the highest death tolls we have seen in the recent days,’ said Al Jazeera’s Reza Sayah, reporting from Gaziantep on the Turkish side of the Syria-Turkey border.
Russia’s military announced a three-hour daily halt in air strikes in Aleppo to allow umanitarian convoys in on Thursday, but the UN said it was not nearly long enough to help trapped civilians.