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Syrian strikes kill 15 near Damascus: activists

Xinhua, February 9, 2015 Adjust font size:

As many as 15 people were killed and dozens of others wounded on Monday in government airstrikes on a rebel-held area east of the capital Damascus, a monitoring group reported.

Government forces also fired mortar shells on Douma in eastern Damascus amid renewed shelling by barrel bombs, the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, adding that many of the wounded were in critical condition.

The Syrian troops have unleashed a wide-scale campaign against Douma recently, after rebels there hit Damascus with dozens of mortar rounds, many of which slammed into residential districts.

The Observatory relies on a network of contacts on the gound in Syria.

At least three people were killed and dozens wounded in the mortar attack on Damascus last Thursday. Endit