Rescuers from the Civil Defence Force entered the building to search for casualties
At least 18 people, including 10 children, have been killed in a Syrian government air strike in the northern city of Aleppo, activist groups say.
The air raid struck Ein Jalout school in the Ansari district of the city on Wednesday morning, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Activists say it was holding an exhibition of children's artwork.
Syria is engulfed in a three-year civil war, which is believed to have left about about 150,000 people dead.
Aleppo has been the focus of bitter fighting between President Bashar al-Assad's forces and rebels since 2012.
'Bodies of children'
Images of the aftermath of Wednesday's attack showed classrooms in ruins.
A video released by opposition activists apparently showed the bodies of children wrapped in sheets.
The Syrian Observatory, a UK-based group, put the death toll at 18, including at least 10 children. It said many more people were injured.
Its director, Rami Abdel Rahman, told the AFP news agency that most of the children killed were aged 12 or 13.
A local opposition activist group, the Aleppo Media Center, said 25 people had been killed, most of them children.
The attack comes a day after dozens of people were killed in car bombs and a mortar attack on pro-government districts in the capital, Damascus, and central city of Homs.
Government forces have made gains in the conflict recently, but rebels still control large swathes of territory.
Last week, the Syrian government announced that it would hold presidential elections on 3 June, a plan denounced by the UN, US and EU.
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