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From the Liveblog of Wednesday, February 28, 2018

Monitor: Syria’s Ghouta enclave assault death toll tops 600

28 February 2018, 7:28 pm

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BEIRUT — The civilian death toll in Eastern Ghouta since Syria and its ally Russia intensified their bombardment of the rebel enclave on February 18 topped 600 Wednesday, a monitor says.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says 147 of the 601 civilians killed, mostly in air strikes, were children.

The rise in casualties comes in part from the discovery of bodies that had remained trapped in the rubble of destroyed buildings by rescuers who took advantage of a Russian-brokered “humanitarian pause” to search for survivors.

— AFP

Syrian civil defense volunteers carry away a victim’s body who died during the collapse of a building following reported regime bombardment in Haza, in the besieged Eastern Ghouta region on the outskirts of the capital Damascus, on February 26, 2018. (AFP Photo/Abdulmonam Essa)

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