Airstrikes and artillery shelling pummel besieged Afrin

Turkish artillery heavily shells Afrin city center as warplanes hit several positions inside the city, local sources report.

The bombing intensified since Wednesday and locals report that Turkish army target anything that moves inside the city.

After artillery shelling earlier in the day Turkish warplanes hit the city center. No information could be gathered about the casualties.

Hundreds of thousands of people are trapped in Afrin and are in danger of a massacre, sources from the Afrin canton administration warn.

In the past 24 hours, eight civilians were killed and several were wounded in attacks on Ashrafiyah neighborhood. The humanitarian situation got worse in the city as the infrastructure of the city collapsed recently because of the Turkish bombing.