DAMASCUS: Nine schoolchildren were killed and 27 people wounded when mortar rounds hit a school and a school bus in the Syrian capital Damascus yesterday, state television reported.
“The toll in the terrorist targeting of the St John of Damascus school has risen to five dead, all of them children, and 27 injured,” it said. Another four students were killed when a mortar hit their vehicle in the Bab Sharqi district of the capital, state news agency SANA said, adding that the driver was also killed. Agencies
