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At least five children were killed in air strikes near a school and a children�鶹APP�s hospital in the Syrian city of Aleppo today, according to reports.

The attacks killed more than 20 people and were carried out by Russian or Syrian jets, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, medical staff and emergency workers. They came on the second day of renewed bombing, part of escalated action by the Syrian government and its allies. 

The Observatory �鶹APP� a British-based monitoring group �鶹APP� and residents said the east of Aleppo was hit by rocket strikes by jets, barrel bombs dropped from helicopters and artillery fired by government forces.

�鶹APP�The helicopters won�鶹APP�t stop for a single moment,�鶹APP� Bebars Mishal, a civil defence worker in the rebel-held part of the city, told the Reuters news agency. �鶹APP�Right now, the bombing won�鶹APP�t let up.�鶹APP�

The bombing hit the surroundings of a children�鶹APP�s hospital in the Shaar neighbourhood and of a school in the Salah al-Din neighbourhood, the Observatory said.

�鶹APP�We woke up to the bombing and until now, the warplanes and helicopters are running,�鶹APP� said Modar Shekho, a nurse in eastern Aleppo. �鶹APP�The Shaar neighbourhood was burned down between yesterday and today.�鶹APP�

Many children have been killed during recent attacks in Aleppo and other Syrian towns and cities.

At least  and 15 wounded when a primary school in the southern city of Daraa was hit by rockets on October 11.

Russia today denied that its jets struck Aleppo in the renewed wave of bombardment. It says it is sticking to a moratorium on strikes in the city