University students are the latest casualties of the ongoing strife in Syria, where the U.N. says more than 60,000 people have been killed since the civil unrest launched in March 2011.
A series of blasts at a campus in Aleppo, one of the largest cities in Syria, “set cars ablaze, blew the walls off dormitory rooms and left more than 80 people dead,” according to a news report.
Who is to blame for the carnage has yet to be determined, with anti-regime activists blaming President Bashar Assad and an air strike, and Syrian state media blaming rebel fighters.
Aleppo’s university is in the city’s northwest, a sector controlled by government forces, making it unclear why government jets would target it, as opposition activists claim.
Syria’s state news agency blamed the attack on rebels, saying they fired two missiles at the university. It said the strike occurred on the first day of the mid-year exam period and killed students and people who were staying at the university after being displaced by violence elsewhere. The agency did not say how many people were killed and wounded.
The scale of destruction in videos shot at the site, however, suggested more powerful explosives had been used than the rockets the rebels are known to possess.
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