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Rebels shell school in Syria's Deraa killing 5 people

Rebels shell school in Syria's Deraa killing 5 people

By REUTERS

A boy stands near a damaged building after an airstrike yesterday in the rebel held Douma neighbourhood of Damascus, Syria, on Tuesday, October 4, 2016. Photo: Reuters

BEIRUT: Rebels shelled a school in a government-controlled part of Syria's southern city of Deraa on Tuesday killing at least five people including children, a Britain-based monitoring group and state media said.

About 20 others were wounded in the attack, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Deraa is split between government and insurgent areas of control.