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Syria conflict: Aleppo car bomb 'kills 17' Syria conflict: Aleppo car bomb 'kills 17'
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A car bomb in Syria's largest city, Aleppo, has killed 17 people and wounded 40, according to the Syrian state news agency Sana. At least 17 people have been killed by a car bomb in Syria's largest city, Aleppo, state news agency Sana says.
Footage on state TV showed damaged buildings and rescue workers pulling survivors from the rubble. Syrian state TV said two hospitals and a school were largely destroyed by the blast near the city sports stadium.
The blast was caused by a booby-trapped car, Sana reported. The Free Syrian Army said it carried out the attack because the facilities were being used by government troops. Earlier, a strike killed at least five people, witnesses said.
Fighting in Aleppo has intensified since Syrian government forces launched an offensive in July against rebels seeking to make the city their base. It comes as the new UN-Arab League envoy begins a mission to the region.
No group has said it carried out the attack. Lakhdar Brahimi, who last month replaced Kofi Annan as special envoy to Syria, will hold talks with Arab League and Egyptian officials ahead of meetings in Damascus.
Sana blamed "terrorists", the term the Syrian government uses for rebels. When he took over the post, Mr Brahimi said bringing peace to Syria would be "nearly impossible".
Separately, the new UN-Arab League envoy, Lakhdar Brahimi, has arrived in Cairo, where he will hold talks on Syria with the Arab League on Monday. As violence continued, activists said more than 100 people were killed across Syria on Sunday.
In Aleppo, where government troops are trying to flush out rebels, state TV showed damaged buildings and rescue workers pulling survivors from the rubble after the car bomb went off.
Reuters news agency quoted an activist, Ahmad Saeed, as saying the army had previously taken over the neighbourhood and turned the hospital into a barracks.
The attack came shortly after warplanes dropped bombs on rebel targets in the east of the city, with reports of at least five people killed.