Nine children were killed and 27 people wounded when mortar rounds hit a school and a school bus in the Syrian capital Damascus on Monday, AFP reports.
“The toll in the terrorist targeting of the St. John of Damascus school with mortar rounds has risen to five dead, all of them children, and 27 injured,” a news alert on Syrian state television said.
Another four students were killed when a mortar hit the vehicle they were in, in the central Christian neighborhood of Bab Sharqi district of the capital, state news agency SANA said, adding that the driver was also killed.
One of the young victims was identified as 6-year-old Hovhannes Atokamian, a first-grader in the school.
