NOVANEWS
“A young girl was killed and several other students were injured when mortars fired by terrorists hit a school compound in the Baramkeh district of Damascus,” state news agency SANA said.
“Shells also landed on two (other) schools […] injuring four civilians, including a teacher, and damaging the buildings,” SANA added.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights confirmed the report, adding that an unknown number of people were injured.
Elsewhere in Syria, regime troops seized Baba Amr in Homs, the Observatory said, two weeks after fighting erupted in the district.
“Syrian regime forces have recaptured total control of the district of Baba Amr, more than two weeks after rebel fighters had infiltrated the area and seized several neighbourhoods,” it said.
This time last year, regime forces overran Baba Amr after a month-long siege that left the neighbourhood in ruins and claimed hundreds of lives.
In recent days, “the army used warplanes, rockets and tank shells to bombard” Baba Amr, the Observatory said, adding that residents who had fled their homes in the district returned to find them “uninhabitable”.
On Monday night, the Observatory said at least 13 scorched bodies, including those of five women and four children, were found in the village of Abel, in the countryside near Homs.
The victims had been “slaughtered and burned”, the group said, adding that “activists accused pro-regime militia of committing this massacre”.
The group also reported that at least 11 opposition fighters were killed in an army ambush in the majority-Kurd northern province of Hasakeh.
More than 160 people were killed in Syria on Monday. Among the dead were 75 civilians, including 13 children, according to the Observatory.
