Aleppo: 6 dead after market area barrel bombing Syrian air strikes on a besieged rebel town in the heart of the country have killed nearly 50 people in recent days, a monitoring group said on Wednesday. In Syria's war-torn economic capital of Aleppo, the Syrian military dropped a barrel of explosives on an area near a market, killing six people including a woman, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES*ATTENTION : IMAGES OF BLOOD*