10 killed in Damascus University attack
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March 29, 2013, Friday
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MORTAR shells slammed into a cafeteria at Damascus University yesterday, killing at least 10 people and wounding 20 others, state media and officials said.
Rebels began firing shells at the capital earlier this year, and the strikes have become increasingly common in recent weeks as rebels clash with government troops on the east and south sides of the city.
State-run TV said 10 people were killed when mortar shells struck the cafeteria of the university's architecture department. At least 20 people were wounded in the attack.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, which came two days after rebels barraged Damascus with mortar shells that killed at least three people and wounded dozens.
The government blamed "terrorists," the term it uses for the rebels and called the attack as a "barbaric massacre."
Government-run Al-Ikhbariya TV showed footage of plastic tables and chairs turned upside down, shattered glass and pens and books scattered on the floor. Pools of blood were seen on the floor of the open-air cafeteria. The station showed paramedics trying to revive a wounded girl.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights confirmed the attack, saying many of the wounded were in critical condition. Earlier in the day, activists said Syrian rebels attacked army checkpoints in and around a key southern town that is a gateway to Damascus.
The observatory group said rebel attacks were under way in and around Dael in the strategic Daraa province, which borders Jordan. The Local Coordination Committees, another activist group, said regime bombardment of Dael killed at least three people yesterday. The observatory group also reported violence in other parts of Syria, including the northern regions of Idlib and Aleppo, and air raids on the suburbs of Damascus.
Turkish officials yesterday denied reports they were deporting hundreds of Syrian refugees for causing disturbances inside a refugee camp.
Rebels began firing shells at the capital earlier this year, and the strikes have become increasingly common in recent weeks as rebels clash with government troops on the east and south sides of the city.
State-run TV said 10 people were killed when mortar shells struck the cafeteria of the university's architecture department. At least 20 people were wounded in the attack.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, which came two days after rebels barraged Damascus with mortar shells that killed at least three people and wounded dozens.
The government blamed "terrorists," the term it uses for the rebels and called the attack as a "barbaric massacre."
Government-run Al-Ikhbariya TV showed footage of plastic tables and chairs turned upside down, shattered glass and pens and books scattered on the floor. Pools of blood were seen on the floor of the open-air cafeteria. The station showed paramedics trying to revive a wounded girl.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights confirmed the attack, saying many of the wounded were in critical condition. Earlier in the day, activists said Syrian rebels attacked army checkpoints in and around a key southern town that is a gateway to Damascus.
The observatory group said rebel attacks were under way in and around Dael in the strategic Daraa province, which borders Jordan. The Local Coordination Committees, another activist group, said regime bombardment of Dael killed at least three people yesterday. The observatory group also reported violence in other parts of Syria, including the northern regions of Idlib and Aleppo, and air raids on the suburbs of Damascus.
Turkish officials yesterday denied reports they were deporting hundreds of Syrian refugees for causing disturbances inside a refugee camp.
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