AMMAN – Syrian government forces killed at least 20 people Tuesday when they shelled a bakery in a neighborhood under rebel control in the contested northern city of Aleppo, opposition activists said. The dead included women and children, they said. Video footage, which could not be immediately verified, showed decapitated bodies amid scattered bread loaves. Majd Nour, an opposition campaigner in Aleppo, said two shells hit the bakery, located in the eastern Hananu neighborhood, in the early afternoon. Free Syrian Army fighters were guarding it at the time, he said. “The frontline is about two kilometers away from the bakery, at Karm Al-Jabal. There has been a lull since the army shelled Hananu overnight,” Nour said. “It was quiet all day and suddenly Assad's forces fired three shells. The first landed near the bakery and the other two hit it,” he added. Meanwhile, an anti-aircraft shell fired from Syria hit a health center in a Turkish border town Tuesday but caused no casualties, reported the private CNN-Turk television network on its website. The shell landed around 0800 GMT in the Reyhanli district of Hatay province, 200 meters from the Syrian border, and shattered windows of the building, according to the network. It was not immediately clear if Turkish artillery struck back at Syria after the incident. Violence raged across war-torn Syria Tuesday, a watchdog said, eroding hopes of a ceasefire for this week's Eid Al-Adha as proposed by UN-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi. – Agencies
