Beirut: At least 21 people, many of them women, were today killed when residential buildings were bombarded by regime forces in a town in eastern Syria, a watchdog said. At least one building collapsed after the air and artillery strike in the town of Mayadin, the director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Rami Abdel Rahman, told AFP.
Abdel Rahman said at least 12 women had been killed and dozens of people also wounded in the bombardment, which flattened one building and seriously damaged another, trapping several people. Mayadin lies on the Euphrates river in the province of Deir Ezzor. (AFP)
