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* Bodies left piled on the streets among rubble and shrapnel
* Latest reports say hundreds were also wounded in the strike
* Eye-witness videos show the bloodied bodies of women and children killed
* More than 100 people were queuing for hours when the air strike occurred
* Human rights groups accuse military of intentional attacks on civilians

Up to 200 people were killed while queuing for bread in Syria yesterday, one of the deadliest air strikes in the country's civil war.

Videos showed dozens of blood-stained bodies crumpled in the street among piles of rubble and shrapnel. Hundreds more were injured.

"When I got there, I could see piles of bodies all over the ground. There were women and children," said Samer al-Hamawi, an activist in the town of Halfaya, where the strike hit a bakery. "There are also dozens of wounded."

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