Daesh attack kills 17, wounds 40 in Syria’s Dayr al-Zawr

At least 17 people have been killed and 40 more wounded in a Daesh terrorist attack on Syria’s eastern province of Dayr al-Zawr.

According to the so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights on Monday, three children were among those killed in the mortar attack which targeted the town of al-Joura in the province.

“The shelling hit just before families were gathering to break the Ramadan fast,” said the UK-based monitoring group’s director Rami Abdel Rahman.

Local sources said that at least six shells fell on the city during the attack which also wounded at least 40 people.

“Some of them are in critical condition, but the health situation in the neighborhood is deteriorating because of the lack of staff, medicine, and medical equipment,” added a local activist.