Five civilians were killed and 30 others wounded Saturday by the rebels' mortar shells amid intensifying military showdown in Damascus' Douma district, Xinhua reported citing the state news agency SANA.
The mortar shells fired by the Islam Army in Douma in the Eastern Ghouta countryside of the capital slammed several neighborhoods on Saturday, prompting the army to respond to the fire sources in Douma.
A day earlier, two people were killed and 20 others wounded by the rebels' mortar attack on Damascus.
