Syrian regime airstrikes on Saturday killed 50 people in the rebel-held town of Douma east of Damascus, Al Arabiya News Channel reported citing local committees.
\nAlmost 200 were injured, and some remain trapped beneath the rubble, after the sorties destroyed several buildings in the town.
\nThe Syrian Observatory for Human Rights placed the number of casualties at \u201cat least 20\u201d adding that death toll was expected to rise.
\n\u201cAt least 20 civilians were killed in the heavy shelling and air attacks since this morning on Douma,\u201d said Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
\nOn Sunday, regime attacks on Douma killed more than 100 people and sparked international condemnation of one of the bloodiest government attacks in Syria\u2019s war.
\nAccording to the Local Coordination Committees activist network, Saturday\u2019s bombardment struck four adjacent buildings in the town.
\nPhotographs published by a local activist group depicted a young, bloodied child being carried across a field of concrete rubble.
\nVolunteers searched through crumbling buildings, some of which were missing entire walls, to find survivors.
\nDouma is part of the rebel-held Eastern Ghouta area, which is regularly targeted by regime shelling and bombardment.
\nLast week\u2019s attacks, in which the Britain-based Observatory said 117 people had been killed, drew harsh criticism of the Syrian government\u2019s indiscriminate attacks on civilians.
\nMore than 240,000 people have been killed and millions have been forced to flee since the conflict began in March 2011.<\/p>\n
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