As many as 176 persons were killed in the Syrian city of Aleppo over the past five days, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) on Sunday.

Some 97 persons were killed in a heavy bombing by warplanes of eastern districts of Aleppo while 57 others were killed in the western districts, the London-based SOHR said.

The Syrian Coordination Committees, meanwhile, said 121 persons were killed across Syria on Saturday, including 81 in Aleppo. 

Syria's grinding five-year conflict has devastated Aleppo, dividing the city between government-controlled areas in the west and rebel positions in the east.

Source: MENA