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At least 20 people were killed Tuesday in a regime barrel bomb attack on a mini-bus stand in a rebel-held part of Syria's Aleppo city, activists said, according to AFP.

"Helicopters committed a massacre, dropping a barrel bomb on a mini-bus station in the Fardous district of Aleppo, killing 20 civilians, among them children, and injuring 30 more," the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights group said.

The Britain-based activist group said the toll was expected to rise because of the number of serious injuries among the wounded.

The group said most of bodies of those killed "were charred."

Video footage distributed by activists and posted on YouTube showed rubble and twisted scraps of metal strewn across the cratered pavement where the station was, underneath a bridge.

Firefighters and civilians worked with hoses to tackle fierce blazes in several vehicles that produced thick clouds of smoke.