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The Britain-based
war monitor said it had documented hundreds of injuries as a
result of Russian and Syrian air strikes and shelling by
government forces and its allies on the besieged eastern half of
the divided city.
The assault began last Tuesday after a weeks-long pause in air
strikes and shelling inside east Aleppo, although battles and
air strikes did continue along the city's front lines and in the
surrounding countryside.
The monitor said there were another 87 deaths of rebel fighters
and people of unknown identity in the eastern sector.
The Observatory also documented 16 civilian deaths, including 10
children, and dozens of injuries as a result of rebel shelling
of government-held west Aleppo.
Air strikes and shelling of east Aleppo last week knocked all
the main hospitals in that part of the city out of service, the
local health authority and international humanitarian agencies
said.
(Reporting by Lisa Barrington; Editing by Dominic Evans)
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