Five Dead Following Air Attack on Damascus
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CAIRO (Sputnik) - At least five people were killed as a result of the Israeli air attack on the Syrian capital of Damascus, the Lebanon-based Al Mayadeen TV reports citing a Syrian health ministry source.
The source said that, in addition to the five dead, there are several injured, some in critical condition.
Meanwhile, a Damascus hospital official told Al-Watan newspaper that the bodies of at least three dead were brought to the medical facility following the rocket attack. There were also two injured people, according to Al-Watan.
Earlier, a source in the city police told Sputnik that a residential building in the Kafar Sousah district of Damascus came under Israeli strikes on Saturday night. A Sputnik correspondent reported that strong blasts were heard in the Syrian capital. Syria's state media reported that air defense systems were repelling a rocket attack over Damascus and that the "Israeli aggression" resulted in several injured and dead.
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