At least 12 people were killed and scores wounded on Tuesday in aerial strikes believed to have been carried out by the Syrian air force on a popular market in a village in opposition-held northwestern Syria, rescuers and residents said.

Residents and rescuers said bombs dropped on Maar Shoreen village in southern Idlib province by planes that monitors said were Syrian army jets left a trail of death and destruction and wounded scores in a main street of the village's market.

Videos released on social media by activists purportedly showed footage of charred bodies lying on the streets alongside badly burned people being carried by rescuers. Reuters was unable immediately to independently verify the footage.