Residents of Syria’s eastern Ghouta district said they were waiting their “turn to die” on Wednesday, after rockets and barrel bombs fell on the besieged rebel enclave targeted for days by some of the most intense bombardment of the war.
Syria's Ghouta residents 'wait to die' as bombs fall
STEPANAKERT, FEBRUARY 21, ARTSAKHPRESS:At least 10 people died in one village and more than 200 were injured early on Wednesday. At least 274 people have been killed in the district in the last three days, the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor said.
Another 13 bodies, including five children, were recovered from the rubble of houses destroyed on Tuesday in the villages of Arbin and Saqba, the Observatory reported.
The eastern Ghouta, a densely populated agricultural district on the outskirts of Damascus, is the last major area near the capital still under rebel control.
