IDLIB, Syria
A car bomb in the Syrian border town of Atmah killed 16 people, including women and children, and wounded 65 others on Sunday, according to initial reports.
The Syrian Revolution General Commission (SRGC), a coalition of several opposition groups, said in a statement that a bomb-laden vehicle had exploded near the Orient Hospital in the opposition-held town.
The SRGC also said that several of the wounded are in critical condition.
Five of the injured, including a child, were transferred to a state hospital in Turkey's Reyhanli District, according to an AA correspondent.
No groups have claimed responsibility for the attack.
According to the latest UN figures, more than 100,000 people have been killed in Syria's three-year conflict, while 3.5 million have been internally displaced.
Over two million are now registered as refugees in Turkey, Lebanon and Iraq.
Government forces kill 12 in Syria
Syrian government forces on Sunday killed 12 people in an aerial raid on opposition-controlled areas of Aleppo, according to the watchdog. The London-based Syrian Network for Human Rights Watchdog (SNHR) claimed in a statement Sunday that government forces attacked the opposition-controlled Al Ansari, Haidarie and Masaken Hanano districts of Aleppo with barrel bombs, killing 12 people and injuring many others.
A spokesman for the Syrian Local Coordination Committee, Ahmed Muhammed Ali, told AA that regime planes bombed and destroyed dozens of houses.
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