Al Jazeera news :At least 82 people have been killed in a string of Syrian government air strikes on a marketplace in Douma, a rebel-held town near Damascus, activists said said.At least 200 people were injured, with the death toll, most of them civilians, likely to rise as many of the wounded were in a serious condition, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Sunday.The civil defence in Douma put the death toll at 70.Firas Abdullah, a local photographer in Douma, told Al Jazeera that this was the main market in the town.”The market has always crowded with people buying and selling to make a living,” he said.The attack on the market is the second in a week. On Wednesday, air strikes on the area left at least 27 people killed, Abdullah said.Abdel Rahman said locals had gathered at the site after the first strike to help evacuate the wounded when more raids hit.”The preliminary information suggests most of the dead are civilians,” he said.A video posted online by activists of the aftermath of the attacks showed an intersection strewn with rubble and twisted metal.The fronts of several buildings nearby appeared to have been sheared off by the force of the blasts, and several vehicles were overturned and crumpled amid the rubble.
