Syrian war planes bomb market in Douma, Damascus – at least 82 feared killed

It was an intentional attack carried out by Syrian war planes on its people in rebel held Douma near Damascus that has killed at least 82 people and have left more than 200 wounded at a busy market outside the Syrian capital.
The bombs were allegedly dropped by government war planes and the attack was during rush hour because Sunday was the beginning of the working week in Syria.
This has been reported in news.sky.com dated 17 August 2015.

The attack was one of the deadliest since the civil war erupted nearly five years ago and, a war that has killed more than 250,000 and injured at least one million. In the opinion of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the incident was "an official massacre that was carried out deliberately". The war planes had fired a first missile and then came back to fire more missiles minutes later against those who had come to help victims after the first attack.
The official version of the Syrian military was that air force strikes on Douma and nearby Harasta had targeted the headquarters of the rebel group Islam Army.
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