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At least two people were killed and over 10 wounded on Thursday by a renewed rebel mortar attack on the capital Damascus, local media reported.
Over 16 mortar shells landed on several residential areas of the capital, the latest in a series of intensified mortar shelling by the rebels in the eastern countryside of Damascus.
The week-long mortar attacks on the capital left over 30 people killed as a result of the explosion of over 150 mortar shells, according to local media reports.
Thursday's attack targeted the areas of Jaramana and Dweila in eastern Damascus as well as the predominantly-Christian neighborhood of Bab Touma and other areas in the capital.
As a result of the rebel attack, the Syrian air force carried out several airstrikes on the rebels' positions in the Eastern Ghouta countryside of Damascus.
The activists' Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 200 people were killed and wounded in the week-long mortar shelling on the government-controlled areas in Damascus.
The UK-based watchdog group said 20 airstrikes targeted the rebel-held area of Harasta in northeastern Damascus, adding that tens of people were killed in rebel-held areas as a result of the airstrikes.
The mortar attacks come also as the Syrian army and the rebels have been fighting for days in the Harasta after the rebels attempted to attack a military base near that area.
(ASIA PACIFIC DAILY)
