HAMMURIYEH: A wave of Syrian air strikes on Sunday killed at least 19 civilians and wounded dozens across the besieged rebel enclave of Eastern Ghouta near Damascus, a monitor said. The deadliest raids hit the town of Hammuriyeh, killing 13 civilians including five children, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Other air strikes on the towns of Arbeen, Beit Sawa and Misraba killed six civilians, among them two children and two women. The Observatory said the death toll was likely to rise given the critical wounds suffered by dozens of people. In Hammuriyeh, an AFP photographer saw men carrying the body of a victim wrapped in a blue blanket across a rubble-littered street, a shoeless foot sticking out.The strikes appeared to hit a modest residential neighbourhood, smashing a small convenience store and caking a vegetable stand in a layer of dust.Victims were taken to a nearby clinic where doctors could be seen treating a man wincing from a gash above his knee.
