Two Armenian children killed by mortar attack in Damascus
12.11.2013,
15:41
Nine children were killed and 27 people wounded when mortar rounds hit a school and a school bus in the Syrian capital Damascus on Monday, Novosti-Armenia reported citing Yerakuyn information portal.
YEREVAN, November 12. / ARKA /. Nine children were killed and 27 people wounded when mortar rounds hit a school and a school bus in the Syrian capital Damascus on Monday, Novosti-Armenia reported citing Yerakuyn information portal.
The toll in the terrorist targeting of the St. John of Damascus school with mortar rounds has risen to 5 dead, all of them children, and 27 injured.
Another 4 students were killed when a mortar hit the vehicle they were in, in the central Bab Sharqi district of the capital. The driver was also killed. Two of the killed children were ethnic Armenians- first grader Hovhannes Atokhanyan and third- grader Vanessa Miho.
Earlier, the official Al-Ikhbariya channel reported that 11 children had been hurt at the school in the majority Christian district of Qassaa, in central Damascus.
The armed conflict in Syria has killed over 100,000 people since 2011 March, according to UN data. .-0-
