Fresh mortar attack kills 4 in Damascus

At least four people were killed and five others wounded on Sunday when four mortar shells slammed a neighbourhood east of the capital Damascus, the media reported.

The mortars, fired from rebel-held areas east of Damascus, slammed into the Qishleh street in the predominantly-Christian neighbourhood of Bab Touma east of Damascus, a medical source told Xinhua.

The attack is the latest in a string of intensified terror attacks the capital has been suffering from after a long period of lull.

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