At least 22 dead in attack on Syria regime bastion
Source: AFP
Damascus (AFP) - At least 22 people were killed in mortar fire Tuesday on Syria's coastal city of Latakia, in one of the bloodiest shellings there since the country's war began, state media reported.
The toll rose to "22 people killed and 62 wounded" in the attack on eastern neighbourhoods of the regime bastion, state television said.
Earlier, state news agency SANA had said 12 people died and 57 were hurt when two mortar rounds struck residential neighbourhoods.
Latakia lies in the heartland of the minority Alawite sect to which Syria's ruling clan belongs and has been largely spared attacks during four and a half years of civil war.
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Not an unusual death toll for Syria, but an unusual location.
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