Bombardment kills 15 civilians in Syria rebel enclave

9 January 2018, 7:12 pm

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BEIRUT, Lebanon — Air strikes and artillery fire killed at least 15 civilians on Tuesday in a besieged rebel enclave near Damascus targeted by near-daily regime bombardment, a war monitor says.

Three children were among the dead in Eastern Ghouta, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which says the air raids were carried out by regime and Russian warplanes.

The deadliest strikes hit the Hammuriyeh district where eight civilians were killed, the Britain-based monitor says.

“There are 85 wounded in total, some in critical condition, and the death toll could increase,” says Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman.

— AFP