Syrian regime shelling killed four schoolchildren and a man in the rebel-held besieged town of Jisreen east of the capital Damascus, a Britain-based monitor and a medical source says.
“A shell fired by regime troops hit the entrance of a school in Jisreen just as children were leaving it, killing five people including four schoolchildren,” Syrian Observatory for Human Rights chief Rami Abdel Rahman says.
A medical source at the town hospital confirmed the death toll.
A man mourns next to the bodies of Syrian schoolchildren at a makeshift hospital following a reported government shelling in the rebel-held besieged town of Jisreen, east of the capital Damascus, on October 31, 2017. (AFP Photo)
An AFP photographer at the medical facility saw the bodies of four children, as well as school bags and a small shoe covered in blood. He also saw several wounded, including one child with amputated legs.
Jisreen lies in the rebel-held stronghold of Eastern Ghouta east the capital, where opposition fighters have been battling President Bashar al-Assad’s troops for six years.
— AFP
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