Deadly air strikes and artillery fire continued on Tuesday with more than 100 people in Syria’s Eastern Ghouta enclave killed, bringing the number of civilian deaths to 250 over the last 48 hours, a war monitor reported.
It was the highest two-day death toll since a 2013 chemical attack on the besieged enclave, which killed hundreds, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
The UK-based war monitor said 106 people had been killed by bombardment on Tuesday.
Six hospitals have been struck over two days in the Syrian rebel enclave, putting three out of service and killing several people, the United Nations said.
“I am appalled and distressed by reports of the horrifying attacks against six hospitals in East Ghouta over the past 48 hours,” said Panos Moumtzis, the UN’s regional humanitarian coordinator for the Syria crisis.
In addition to the six listed by the UN, another key hospital was hit and put out of service Tuesday, the Syrian American Medical Society said.
According to Al Jazeera, relentless air raids and artillery fired by Syrian government forces have left the residents of the Damascus suburb in a state of panic.
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