Bombing kills 71 in east Ghouta in Syria

In Syria, a surge in attacks by the government and its allies has killed 71 people in the rebel pocket of eastern Ghouta in the past 24 hours, said a monitoring group yesterday. 

Air strikes, rocket fire and shelling on the besieged suburbs of Damascus also wounded 325 people, the



Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. There was no comment from the Syrian military. 

The British-based Observatory said the latest escalation started yesterday in Ghouta, the only major insurgent enclave around the capital, and the dead included 14 children.