Syrian General Staff Reports on Casualties After West's Strike on Syria

Damascus has slammed the attack by the Western states on Syria, which had been conducted before the OPCW experts were due to start probing the alleged chemical attack in Douma blamed on the country's government.

News ID: 69708

Date: 14 April 2018 - 11:50

Tehran(Defapress) Syrian General Staff has reported that three persons had been injured in the Western missile attack on Syria.

The Syrian Foreign Ministry has denounced joint US, British and French strike on the country as a "brutal, barbaric aggression," saying that the attack "aims at hindering the mission's work and preempting its results."

Earlier, a local security source told Sputnik that at least 6 civilians have been injured as a result of a missile strike on a military depot to the west of Homs. Also, SANA agency reported that at least three civilians were injured as a result of the western states' strike on a Syrian military facility in Homs.

According to Syria's Ministry of Information, Western media are exaggerating the scale of US, UK and French strikes against the targets in Syria.

"The Ministry of Information calls on citizens not to trust any media reports, which are deliberately or undeliberately exaggerating the number of targets and consequences of the trilateral aggression," the ministry said, as quoted by the Syrian State Television.

The broadcaster also refuted reports about nine targets, which were allegedly hit by the Western strikes.
While Damascus has not made any official statements on the total scale of the damages or casualties as a result of West's strikes yet, the Syrian state-run SANA news agency reported that missile strikes carried out by the UK, France and Britain on a research center in Damascus had only caused material damage.

"Several missiles of the three countries [the US, the UK and France], which struck a research facility have only caused material damage to a building, which includes an educational center and scientific labs," SANA reported.

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