58 killed, hundreds injured in Syrian market air raids

At least 58 people have been killed in a string of Syrian government air strikes on a marketplace in Douma, a rebel-held town near Damascus, a monitoring group said. At least 200 people were injured, with the death toll, most of them civilians, likely to rise as many of the wounded were in a serious condition, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Sunday. The civil defence in Douma put the death toll at 70. Abdel Rahman said locals had gathered at the site after the first strike to help evacuate the wounded when more raids hit. “The preliminary information suggests most of the dead are civilians,” he said. A video posted online by activists of the aftermath of the attacks showed an intersection strewn with rubble and twisted metal. The fronts of several buildings nearby appeared to have been sheared off by the force of the blasts, and several vehicles were overturned and crumpled amid the rubble. SOURCE: ALJAZEERA