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Five civilians were killed and more than 50 others were wounded as militants of the Jabhat al-Nusra terrorist group (outlawed in Russia) shelled Aleppo using gas balloons laden with explosives, a representative of Russia’s center for reconciliation of the warring parties in Syria said on Thursday, TASS reports.

According to the source, some 20 residential houses were damaged in the attack on a market in the city’s Meydan district. “This is not the first case when militants of Jabhat al-Nusra targeted the areas of mass concentration of citizens of the city expecting to have a great amount of victims,” the representative said.

It was earlier reported that Jabhat al-Nusra last night attacked the settlement of Handrat and Aleppo’s Sheikh Maqsood district.

Over the past 24 hours, gunmen from Jabhat al-Nusra terrorist group have attacked settlements in the provinces of Idlib, Latakia, Hama, Damascus and the eastern area of Al Manshia in Daraa and a roadblock on the entry to the settlement.