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Thursday, October 29, 2015
Shells target Russian Embassy in Damascus
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Syrian activists and state-owned media say that several mortar shells have hit near the Russian Embassy in Damascus but that there are no injuries.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says at least 10 shells struck in the vicinity of the embassy in the central Damascus neighborhood of al-Adawi. The state news agency SANA says at least eight shells fell. Both SANA and the Observatory say there is material damage but provide no details.
Thursday’s attack is not the first time the embassy has been targeted. On October 13, as government supporters gathered outside the embassy in a rally to thank Moscow for aiding the Syrian government’s military campaign, shells fell inside the embassy compound. No one was reported hurt at the time.
— AP
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