WORLD_ SYRIA_ 15 killed in attack in Syrian university

15 killed in attack in Syrian university


By Middle East correspondent Matt Brown, wires
Posted 9 hours 53 minutes ago


A mortar attack has killed at least 15 people at a university in the Syrian capital Damascus and injured six others.


The mortar rounds landed in the canteen of the architecture faculty at the Damascus University, which is near the Ministry of Defence, state TV headquarters and president Bashar al-Assad's official residence.

State media ran footage of a bloodied patio filled with broken glass and upturned chairs, and showed doctors treating the wounded.

"A total of 15 students were killed in a mortar attack launched by terrorists targeting the architecture faculty," said university dean Amer Mardini, quoted by the official SANA news agency.

Six badly injured students were rushed to hospital for treatment.

The national student union denounced the "cowardly terrorist attack that targeted the architecture faculty of Damascus University," state television said.

The regime uses the term "terrorists" for rebels who are increasingly targeting Mr Assad's seat of power.

Rebels have stepped up mortar attacks on the area this year.

The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which is opposed to the Assad regime, says most of the victims have been civilians.

The United Nations says more than 70,000 people have been killed in Syria's conflict and millions more have been displaced.

'Living in hell'

The deadly attack came amid continued fighting in the country.

Warplanes targeted rebel enclaves in Irbin and other towns east of the capital.

Daraa MP Walid al-Zohbi told parliament that insurgents have seized large parts of the south.

"Syria is no longer going through a crisis. It is plunged in total war," he said.

"Terrorism has spread in Syria and so has chaos. This is reality, and all Syrians know it."

Mr Zohbi said the military has withdrawn from many positions.

"Terrorists from Al-Nusra Front have taken their place," he said.

"From the south, we are totally exposed. We are only protected from the west.

"The people are living in hell and their morale has hit rock bottom."

ABC/AFP

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