Douma air strikes death toll rises to 104, with 300 injured

The death toll from massive air strikes on crowded market in Douma city northeast Damascus has risen to 104 and 300 people wounded, most of them civilians, monitoring groups said on Monday.

Syrian regime air force carried out on Sunday a deadly air strikes dropping 10 vacuum bombs on the city's marketplace, which get crowded in Sundays, killing 104 people, including children and women, activists and the Syrian Network for Human Rights said.

At least 300 more people were wounded in the attack on Douma, about 15 km (10 miles) northeast of Damascus, according to the British-based Observatory and the local arm of Syrian Civil Defense, a rescue service operating in rebel areas.

Hussam Adnan, a volunteer doctor in the city's field hospital, said on his Facebook page the death scene inside modest hospital that suffer lack of medical equipments is a heartbreaking especially wen medics find themselves powerless in front of wounded pleas to rescue them since their injuries are fatal.

A Syrian military source told Reuters air force strikes on Douma and nearby Harasta targeted the headquarters of the rebel group Islam Army. The insurgent group attacked government positions in Harasta on Saturday.

A video released by Islam Army showed its leader Zahran Alloush taking part in the attack. The group is one of the most powerful insurgent factions operating near Damascus, the seat of President Bashar al-Assad's power more than four years into the civil war that has killed a quarter of a million people, according to Reuters.

Another video bearing the symbol of the Syrian Civil Defense rescue service appeared to show dozens of bodies lined up on the ground. A photo showed civil defense workers wrapping bodies in white shrouds.

Another video showed rescuers carrying bodies in a street strewn with vegetables and debris.

To the west of Damascus, battles were reported on Sunday between the Syrian army, backed by its Lebanese ally Hezbollah, and insurgents in the town of Zabadani near the Lebanese border, the Observatory said.

A ceasefire between the warring sides in Zabadani and two villages in the northwest collapsed on Saturday when talks aimed at securing a longer cessation of hostilities failed.