KABUL: (MEP) At least nine schoolgirls were killed and and 15 others injured in a rocket attack launched by ISIL Takfiri militants against a residential area in the eastern Syrian province of Deir ez-Zor.
A Syrian Interior Ministry source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the nine schoolgirls lost their lives and 15 others were injured when several rockets fired by militants struck a school building in the Harabesh neighborhood of the provincial capital city of Deir ez-Zor, located 450 kilometers (280 miles) northeast of the capital, Damascus, on Tuesday morning, Syria’s official news agency SANA reported.
The so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said the number of dead was likely to rise.
The projectiles also caused substantial damage to several houses at the targeted area.
The development came only a day after three young girls were killed and two others wounded when a barrage of rockets fired by Takfiri terrorists slammed into Nile Street in Syria’s northern city of Aleppo.
