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13 people, including 6 children, killed in air strikes on Eastern Ghouta

At least 13 people, including 6 children, have been killed on Sunday in Syrian regime air strikes on Eastern Ghouta Suburbs near Damascus, a monitoring group said.

The Syrian Network for Human Rights said 7 people, including 3 children, have been killed in missile attack on Saqba town in the eastern district of Damascus.
 
Also 6 people, including 3 children and 2 women, have lost their lives in raids on Douma city, some 15 km (10 miles) northeast of the capital. The area is besieged by regime forces.

The monitoring group that tracks Syrian war said at least 16,744 enforced disappearance cases by regime have been documented in Damascus suburbs since the Syrian revolution erupted in March 2011.

Last week, government air strikes on east of Damascus had killed 247 people, including 50 children, and wounded 1,000 more people, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

The attacks on the rebel-held Eastern Ghouta region included Aug. 16 air strikes that killed 117 people in a marketplace in Douma.

A rescue service operating in the rebel-held region, the Civil Defense, had documented 265 deaths, including 44 children and 33 women in the same period, said the spokesman for Rif Damascus - the rural area around the city. Speaking to Reuters via the internet, he put the wounded at 1,200.

The Civil Defense has declared Douma a disaster zone.

The air strikes near Damascus have coincided with a wider intensification of the four-year-old civil war estimated to have killed around a quarter of a million people and driven more than 11 million from their homes.

Zaman Al Wasl
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