January 16, 2013 - 10:39 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - Twin blasts inside a university campus in Syria's largest city set cars on fire, blew walls off dormitory rooms and left more than 80 people dead, anti-regime activists said, according to Belfast Telegraph.
The cause of Tuesday, January 15 explosions remained unclear.
Anti-regime activists trying to topple President Bashar Assad's regime said his forces carried out two air strikes. Syrian state media, for its part, blamed rebels fighting the government, saying they fired rockets that struck the campus.
Aleppo, Syria's largest city and a commercial capital, has been harshly contested since rebel forces, mostly from rural areas north of the city, pushed in and began clashing with government troops last summer. Entire neighbourhoods have been destroyed since fighting and frequent shelling and air strikes by government forces who seek to dislodge the rebels.
The competing narratives of the two blasts at the city's main university highlight the difficulty of confirming reports from inside Syria.
The Syrian government bars most media from working in the country, making independent confirmation difficult, and both anti-regime activists and the Syria government sift the information they give the media in an effort to boost their cause.
Aleppo's university is in the city's north-west, a sector controlled by government forces, making it unclear why government jets would target it, as opposition activists claim.
The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights cited students and medical officials as saying that 83 people were killed in the blasts. Several of the more than 150 people injured were in critical condition, it said.
Source: http://www.panarmenian.net/eng/news/141328/
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