An interview with a survivor of the mass killing earlier this week in Otaiba, outside Damascus, may resolve whether “175 insurgents” were slain — the claim of the Syrian military — or whether the dead are civilians.
The man says the attacked group consisted of 175 people, almost all of whom were killed or injured. The civilians, accompanied by 40 fighters, were attempting to leave besieged villages in the Eastern Ghouta area and had left from Douma.
After two hours on foot, the convoy was hit by a series of 12 explosions, followed by fire from heavy weaopns.
The survivors fled in the dark in a six-hour retreat. EA World View
Zaman Alwasl
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