At least 45 people have been killed in a military strike on rebel-held eastern Aleppo as the fight for the city grows increasingly more intense.
The non-government Syria Civil Defence, a search-and-rescue group operating in rebel-held areas, has posted a graphic video from the targeted neighbourhood of Jub Al Quba.
The video from the group more commonly known as the White Helmets shows bodies scattered across the street, many lying in pools of blood and with their belongings on their backs.
Many were trying to flee.
This teenage boy has described the attack.
"When the first shell fell, we ran to see what happened. I found my mother was dead and only one of my sisters was alive. We don't know what happened to the other sister. And then the second bomb fell."
This civil-defence worker described who the latest air strikes appeared to target.
"Regime forces targeted a group of civilians who fled from one side to the other in besieged Aleppo. Forty-five of them died. Most of them were women and children running away from the killing in the eastern neighbourhood."
Government troops have retaken more than one-third of the rebel-held eastern half of Aleppo since entering the area over the weekend.
Tens of thousands of civilians have been displaced by the fighting, and the United Nations says it is extremely concerned about the fate of those still inside the besieged areas.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights estimates at least 50,000 people have fled Aleppo since fighting intensified this week.
Speaking in Paris, the president of the Local Council of Aleppo city, Brita Hagi Hasan, has called for setting up a safe corridor to help people flee the fighting.
"The message I am carrying on behalf of 250,000 civilians in Aleppo is, in the name of humanity, provide a safe passage to residents. In the recent week, the regime's forces have occupied new areas of land, where they willfully settled scores with the residents. We are in possession of valid evidence and documents proving the crimes perpetrated by the regime. Any young man aged below 40 is executed by regime forces."
The UN Security Council has held another emergency meeting following the deadly strikes.
Member states including Britain and the United States have criticised Russia, accusing the Russians of preventing any alleviation of suffering in Aleppo through their veto power.
The British ambassador to the United Nations, Matthew Rycroft, has addressed the Security Council.
"The Syrian regime and Russia have been executing a plan that has now laid 1 million people under siege. And executing is an all-too-appropriate word, because, without a change in policy, without a change of heart, that's exactly what this is: the slow, painful, bitter execution of a million Syrians, cut off from aid convoys, cut off from the world."
But Russia's ambassador, Vitaly Churkin, says Western nations are using the humanitarian crisis as an excuse to change the leadership of Syria for their own benefit.
"If our Western colleagues really are so concerned by the plight of civilians in east Aleppo, indeed, the whole of Syria, then, above all, they need to take genuine, practical steps, put an end to supporting terrorists and lift unilateral sanctions. They need to provide genuine help, which Russia is doing, and not try to use sensitive humanitarian problems to advance or achieve their own political goals."
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