Syria’s state news agency says a rocket attack has killed 13 people in the northern city of Aleppo.SANA says Friday’s attack also wounded 17 people in the city’s northern neighborhood of Achrafieh.

The agency said the attack was carried out by “terrorists,” the term the government uses to refer to rebels trying to overthrow President Bashar Assad.

It said the shells also damaged two houses in the area.

The attack came a day after similar shelling on the neighborhood killed three people and wounded 20.

Rocket attacks are common on residential neighborhood around Syria. The rockets can be wildly inaccurate.

Activists say Syria’s 3-year-old conflict has killed more than 150,000 people. More than 2.5 million people have fled Syria to neighboring countries, while millions more are displaced within it.

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