Deadly rocket fire hits near Damascus trade fair
Five people were reported dead today when a rocket hit near an international trade fair in Syria's capital Damascus being held for the first time in five years.
Five people were reported dead today when a rocket hit near an international trade fair in Syria's capital Damascus being held for the first time in five years.
The Damascus International Fair was once the leading event on Syria's economic calendar but had not been held since shortly after the outbreak of the country's war in March 2011.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based monitor of the war, said five people were killed and around a dozen more injured in the rocket fire near the entrance to the fair.
A source at a hospital in Jaramana, an area southwest of the capital, told
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