A man carries an injured child after what activists said was shelling by forces loyal to Syria's President Assad, in Hamouria main square and market, Eastern Al-Ghouta, near Damascus
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Government air strikes on a rebel-held village east of Damascus Friday killed 32 civilians, including six children, a monitoring group said, denouncing what it called a massacre.
"The number of people killed in a massacre committed by the regime's warplanes against the village of Hammuriyeh, in the Eastern Ghouta area, has risen to 32, including six children," said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
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