Five killed as rebels attack Damascus security compounds - activists


  • World
  • Sunday, 23 Jun 2013

A view shows wreckage after Syrian rebels attacked a security compound at Bab Musalla area in Damascus June 23, 2013, in this handout photograph released by Syria's national news agency SANA. REUTERS/SANA/Handout via Reuters

AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian rebels attacked two security compounds in Damascus on Sunday, killing at least five people, opposition activists in the capital said.

Fighters attacked a compound in the district of Rukn al-Deen with explosives and another in Bab Musalla with mortar rounds, they said.

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