Syrian children stuck in besieged Aleppo are burning rubber tires in a desperate bid to create a smoke screen to stop the daily airstrikes.
Across the towns and villages – as well as in Aleppo city itself – children were filmed rolling rubber tyres down the streets and into piles and setting fire to them.
Footage showed the skies above the city as clogged with thick black smoke as activists said civilians were celebrating the success of their new tactic.
It was not a city-wide success however as regime airplanes bombed the Ansari neighbourhood of the city as well as Bustan al-Qasr, al-Mashhad, al-Sekkary, which killed 10 people according to the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights, although activists reported that the intensity of the bombings had lessened.
Government forces took the Castello Road – the main supply line into the rebel controlled part of the city last week and fighting has raged between government forces and the rebels since.
It is thought between 200,000 and 400,000 people are trapped inside the besieged areas with most refusing to leave by the ‘safe passage’ routes promised by the Syrian government.
(Sourced from agencies, Feature image courtesy:mideast.liveuamap.com)
