ALEPPO, Syria 

At least 10 people were killed and 15 others wounded in regime rocket attacks on Aleppo province in northern Syria, sources at a local hospital said Saturday.

They said regime forces targeted two residential areas in Bustan al-Qasr and Keles regions in Syria’s second largest city, using what are locally called “elephant missiles”, made of oxygen tanks.

Abo Ammar, a local media activist, told Anadolu Agency Saturday that scores of houses were destroyed in Bustan al-Qasr during the attack.

More than 220,000 people have been killed in Syria and almost half the population forced to flee their homes since the conflict between Bashar al-Assad’s regime and opposition forces began in 2011, according to the U.N.