Militant mortar attacks kill 14 in Syria capital
Militant mortar attacks on the Syrian capital, Damascus, have left at least 14 people dead and scores others wounded.
Syrian official news agency, SANA, reported on Sunday that the mortar shells targeted the central prison and the al-Wafedeen Camp.
Five shells hit Damascus Central Prison in Adra area, killing 10 people and wounding 50 others, a Police Command source said.
A medical source in the Police Hospital said two of the injured also succumbed to their wounds.
Meanwhile, SANA also quoted a police source as saying that 16 shells fired by Takfiri militants struck Damascus neighborhoods, killing two civilians and injuring 12 more.
Elsewhere, Three more mortar strikes carried out by the Takfiri militants hit three residential houses in the al-Wafedeen Camp in the Damascus countryside, injuring three people.
Al-Wafedeen Camp houses thousands of displaced families forced out of their homes in the Golan area after the territory was occupied by the Israeli regime forces in 1967
Six women are said to be among the fatalities.
Takfiri militant attacks on Saturday on the al-Wafedeen Camp and also in Harasta area in the Damacus countryside had left four other civilians injured.
Takfiri terrorists are spread out in Harasta, Duma regions, and the surrounding areas, carrying out mortar attacks on residential areas every now and then.
The Syrian army has been carrying out military operations against the militants holed up in the suburbs of the capital in past months, killing a huge number of foreign and foreign-backed militants.
Syria has been plagued by a foreign-backed crisis since March 2011.
The conflict has claimed more than 240,000 lives up until now, according to estimates.
More than 7.2 million Syrians have been internally displaced and more than four million others have been forced to flee to neighboring countries, including Jordan and Lebanon.
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