At least 13 people including a family trapped in a car were killed when Syrian military helicopters dropped barrels packed with explosives on rebel-held areas of the northern city of Aleppo on Saturday, according to reports  The barrel bombs wrecked three buildings in the al-Bab area of the city, Hassoun Abu Faisal of the Aleppo Media Centre said. Another local activist and the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights corroborated the information.  The blasts caused a fuel tanker to explode, setting nearby vehicles alight, including one carrying a family of eight who were trying to flee the area as they heard the approaching helicopters.  Photos uploaded by activists showed a man hurling a bucket of water into a building engulfed in flames and black smoke. A video showed men dragging a charred victim out of a smashed building.  The latest killings occurred as the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that 136,277 people have been killed since the beginning of the Syrian conflict in March 2011. The figure included 47,998 civilians and more than 7,300 children.  Elsewhere in Syria, aid agencies evacuated hundreds of people from the rebel-held Damascus suburb of Yarmouk, an area dominated by Palestinian refugees.  Granting relief groups access to an estimated 250,000 people trapped by fighting across Syria was one of the few goals of the peace talks held last week in Switzerland.  Despite lengthy discussions, the sides could not agree on passage for an aid convoy to reach 2,500 people trapped in the old city of Homs, Syria's third-largest city, with no access to food or medicine.  Anwar Raja, a spokesman for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command in Yarmouk, said the group co-ordinated with the Syrian Arab Red Crescent on Friday and Saturday to extract hundreds of the suburb's residents.  The evacuees were transported to several government-run hospitals and one operated by the Red Crescent, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Car carrying family of eight among those hit when barrels full of explosives were dropped in Aleppo, reports say