Monitor: Air strike kills Syrian family of nine in rebel-held Ghouta
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BEIRUT - A family of nine was killed in Syrian government bombardment of the rebel enclave of eastern Ghouta overnight, where air strikes and fighting have persisted despite a UN Security Council resolution demanding a ceasefire, a war monitor said on Monday.
Health authorities in opposition-run eastern Ghouta said late on Sunday that several people had suffered symptoms consistent with chlorine gas exposure, killing one child, after an explosion.
The bombardment of eastern Ghouta over the past week has been one of the heaviest of Syria's seven-year war, killing at least 522 people in seven days, according to a toll compiled by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based war monitor.
It said two bodies had been pulled from the rubble of a home destroyed by an air strike in the Ghouta town of Douma, with seven others from the same family dead underneath.
