More bombs fall on Syria's Ghouta after heaviest toll in years

Pro-government forces bombarded Syria’s eastern Ghouta on Tuesday, killing at least 49 people, after the heaviest one-day death toll there in three years on Monday, a war monitoring group said.

>>Reuters
Published : 20 Feb 2018, 01:46 PM
Updated : 20 Feb 2018, 01:46 PM

Some 127 people were killed in air raids, rocket strikes and shelling of the area near Damascus on Monday, according to the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

About 190 have died since the bombing intensified late on Sunday and 850 have been injured, it said.