About 25 persons at least were killed and injured by targeting the capital Damascus and its districts by about 15 shells

Successive explosions rocked areas in the capital Damascus and its districts, as a part of the ongoing escalation for the 70th consecutive day on the controlled areas of the regime forces in Damascus city and areas in its districts, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored today that the targeting escalated, in which about 15 shells fell on places in Bab Touma, Al-Dawila, Al-Assad District, Al-Amin Street, Al-Shughur area, and Bab Sharqi, in the middle and the east of Damascus and its outskirts, which resulted in the death of 5 persons at least as well as the injury of 11 others in Bab Touma, while 7 other persons were injured in other areas which witnessed the fall of shells, and the number of casualties may increase because of the presence of serious injuries.

And the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored that this escalation started on the 16th of November 2017, and resulted in the death and the injury of hundreds of persons, in which the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented the death of 51 persons at least including 2 children and 4 citizen women, who were killed as a result of the fall of these shells, and the SOHR documented the injury of more than 316 persons who were injured in these daily targeting during 2 consecutive months, including tens of children and citizen women, some of whom have seriously injured and have permanent disability, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also monitored the continuation of the poor health condition of some of the injured people, which may raise the death toll, in which the shells have targeted since the 16th of November 2017, the areas of Al-Dawila, Al-Sawika, Al-Fahama Khalid bin al-Walid Street, and other areas in Old Damascus, as well as places in Al-Zablatany, Al-Qassaa, Bab Touma, Al-Mujtahed, al-Fayhaa, Al-Abasyeen, Al-Mayadeen, Seba’ Baharat, Aish Al-Warawar, Jermana, Dahyat Al-Assad, Military Teshereen Hospital and other places in the center of the capital, which caused material damage to the property of the citizens, buildings and shops in the places where these shells had fallen.