Mortar attack kills child in Damascus

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An eight-year-old girl was killed and 11 people wounded on Saturday when a mortar shell landed near a school in the Syrian capital of Damascus, the state-run SANA news agency reported.

The mortar, fired by "terrorists," landed in the vicinity of the Dar al-Salam School in al-Shala'an district in central Damascus, SANA said, adding that the attack caused property losses.

It said another mortar shell landed at a building rooftop in the nearby Najmeh Square, leaving only material damages.

On Thursday, 17 people were killed in Damascus and the northern city of Aleppo in mortar attacks which the state media said were carried out by the rebels.

Fighting between the rebels and government troops continues when international chemical experts conduct their mission in Syria to oversee the destruction of the chemical arsenal.

A day earlier, Ahmet Uzumcu, director general of the Organization for the Prohibition the Chemical Weapons, called for a "temporary ceasefire" in Syria to allow the experts to carry out their work quickly.

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