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Thousands flee regime shelling on south Syria: monitor

Published: 21 Jun 2018 - 01:45 pm | Last Updated: 01 Nov 2021 - 05:09 pm
FILE PHOTO. Moawiya Sayasina, the Syrian activist who started scribbling anti-Assad slogans in 2011, walks past the rubble of destroyed buildings in a rebel-held neighbourhood in the southern Syrian city of Daraa on June 5, 2018. AFP / Mohamad ABAZEED

FILE PHOTO. Moawiya Sayasina, the Syrian activist who started scribbling anti-Assad slogans in 2011, walks past the rubble of destroyed buildings in a rebel-held neighbourhood in the southern Syrian city of Daraa on June 5, 2018. AFP / Mohamad ABAZEED

Beirut: More than 12,000 people have fled regime bombardment on rebel-held areas in Syria's southern province of Daraa in the past three days, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said Thursday.

The UN humanitarian coordination office reported that 2,500 people had fled one of these areas in the eastern countryside of the province as of Wednesday.