Damascus fighting heaviest since Syrian conflict began, activists say
Gunfire heard Sunday in several neighborhoods of the capital, protesters blocked roads to protest government offensives in those districts.
Damascus is seeing its heaviest fighting between rebels
and government forces since the conflict began at the beginning of last
year, a monitoring group said late Sunday.
Gunfire was heard Sunday in several neighborhoods of the Syrian
capital, and protesters came out onto the streets and blocked roads to
protest government offensives in those districts, the London-based
opposition Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
It said ambulances were sent in to transport injured government forces
away and killings were also reported among citizens but the numbers of
the casualties were not immediately possible to verify, given the
intensity of the fighting.
"These are the most intense clashes Damascus has ever seen since the beginning of the uprising" in March 2011, the group said.
The opposition Local Coordination Committees of Syria said the
government shelled the neighborhood of Tadamon in south-eastern
Damascus, resulting in casualties among residents in their homes. The
government sent in snipers to the area as residents fled, it said.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights identified Tadamon as one of
the neighbourhoods where the heaviest clashes were taking place.
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