THE al-Qaida-linked insurgents occupying east Aleppo shelled a school and homes in a government-controlled district of the city yesterday, killing six children.

The extremists used rocket artillery to bombard the al-Wataniyeh school in the al-Shahbaa area of west Aleppo, killing three pupils and wounding 14 others.

One shell aslo hit a house in the al-Hamadaniye district, killing three brothers and injuring another.