Syrian regime's devastating aerial campaign has extended on eastern suburbs of Damascus on Sunday, killing 30 people in less than 12 hours since 52 people had been killed in key town of Douma northeast the capital, activists and monitoring groups said.
The Syrian Network for Human Rights said 13 civilians, including 6 children and 5 women, have lost their lives in Hamouriya suburb as well as 8 others were killed in Saqba.
More 9 victims, including 3 children, have been killed in Irbeen and nearby village of Kafr Batna, the monitoring group that tracks war in Syria said.
On Saturday, at least 52 people had been killed in Douma, 6 days since a massacre committed against 117 civilians and branded as war crime by UN officials.
Their deaths were denounced by global powers as well as rights groups, which lambasted the Assad regime's indiscriminate attacks on civilians.
Human Rights Watch urged the United Nations to impose an arms embargo on the Syrian government after Sunday's attacks, which the rights group said demonstrated the regime's "appalling disregard for civilians".
But Damascus has insisted it is waging war against "terrorism", with Foreign Minister Walid Muallem defending last week's attacks.
He said "many of the terrorists use civilians as human shields, so what is claimed about massacres in Douma or elsewhere is fabricated news".
Eastern Ghouta area is regularly targeted by regime shelling and bombardment and has been under a suffocating siege for nearly two years.
The deaths in Eastern Ghouta come two years after a chemical weapons attack on the area killed hundreds of people and was largely blamed on the government.
Zaman Al Wasl
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