Airstrikes kill 40 in Eastern Ghouta
DAMASCUS – Anadolu Agency
At least 40 civilians were killed March 16 and hundreds more injured when Syrian regime and Russian warplanes struck a crowded market in Eastern Ghouta, an opposition-held Damascus suburb.
According to an Anadolu Agency correspondent in the town of Kafr Batna, warplanes had targeted the town’s main market, which was teeming with people when it was struck.
The bodies of the dead and injured remain scattered around the targeted market amid continued attacks, the correspondent asserted.
Home to some 400,000 civilian residents, Syria’s Eastern Ghouta district has remained the target of a regime siege for the last five years.
