According to UN, 2 million children have been displaced within Syrian borders by conflict Damascus – George Al Shami At least six people were killed and 19 others injured when a suicide bomber targeted a restaurant in Aleppo as the United Nations said the number of Syrian child refugees has reached one million.
The suicide blast struck as a group of youths celebrated the graduation of a student, who was among those killed in the attack in Aleppo’s dining area of Mogambo on Thursday, said the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights on Friday.
\"The attack also wounded 19 people, including some in critical condition,\" said the Observatory, adding that it expected the death toll to rise.
Syria’s official SANA news agency also reported the attack, and singled out the death of a journalist it identified as Al-Ikhbariya TV correspondent Hassan Muhanna.
The attack occurred in a part of Aleppo controlled by the regime of President Bashar al-Assad, which has been fighting an armed uprising for more than two years in a conflict that has killed more than 100,000 people.
By late Thursday, the Syrian Local Coordination Committees said they were able to document 115 deaths across Syria, among them seven women, nine children and five people who were killed whilst being tortured.
According to the Committees, 44 people were killed in Damascus and its suburbs; 32 in Aleppo; 12 in Idlib; eight in Hama; seven in Daraa; six in Homs; four in Deir Ezzor; one in Lattakia and one in Hasakeh.
The Committees also documented 408 areas that came under shelling in Syria, the fiercest being in the suburbs of Damascus, whilst air strikes were recorded in 34 areas.
The Committees also reported that Syrian opposition fighters clashed with regime forces in 117 areas.
The Free Syrian Army (FSA) said its fighters stormed the Brigade 68 and Huseinieh checkpoints in Damascus and caused significant losses to regime forces.
In Aleppo, the FSA said it liberated the Om Amoud village and destroyed three government checkpoints and killed more than 25 troops while capturing three others, among them an officer.
In Deir Ezzor, the FSA targeted the military airport and were in direct combat with government troops. While in Hama, the FSA targeted military sites in Salhab and Hawarat with Grad rockets. In addition, the FSA said it destroyed a number of machineries and armoured vehicles in different areas of Syria.
Meanwhile the United Nations said on Friday that the number of children who have fled war-torn Syria hit one million, while two million kids have been displaced within their homeland\'s borders by the conflict.
\"This one millionth child refugee is not just another number. This is a real child ripped from home, maybe even from a family, facing horrors we can only begin to comprehend,\" said the head of UN children\'s agency UNICEF, Anthony Lake, in a statement.
Children make up half of all refugees from more than two years of conflict in Syria, according to United Nations figures.
Most Syrian refugees have found a haven in Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey, Iraq and Egypt, but they are increasingly fleeing to North Africa and Europe.
The UN\'s most recent figures show that some 740,000 Syrian refugees are under the age of 11.