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Ghouta residents 'wait to die' amid bombs

A Syrian monitoring group and paramedics say government shelling and air strikes on rebel-held suburbs of Damascus have killed hundreds of people.

An injured man gets treatment at a hospital in rebel-held Eastern Ghouta, Syria
Nearly 200 civilians have been killed in Eastern Ghouta in the last three days. Source: EPA / Mohammed Badra

Residents of Syria's eastern Ghouta say they are "waiting their turn to die", after more pro-government rockets and barrel bombs fell on the besieged rebel enclave.

At least 10 people died in one village and more than 200 were injured early on Wednesday. At least 274 people have been killed in the district in the last three days, the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor said.

Another 13 bodies, including five children, were recovered from the rubble of houses destroyed on Tuesday in the villages of Arbin and Saqba, the Observatory reported.

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By Hachem El-Haddad



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