The Latest: Group says Syria death toll tops 100 for the day

BEIRUT (AP) — The Latest on the conflict in Syria (all times local):

11:30 p.m.

A monitoring group says the death toll from government shelling and airstrikes outside Damascus has exceeded 100 people for the second straight day.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says 106 people have been killed under the government's ferocious bombardment of the capital's rebel-held Eastern Ghouta suburb region.

It says the toll from two days of shelling and airstrikes has reached 250 killed and over 1,000 maimed and wounded.

The Union of Medical Care and Relief Organizations, which runs hospitals and clinics in Syrian opposition areas, says it has recorded 115 deaths from the onslaught on Tuesday.

Ahmad al-Dbis, an official at the Union, says ten hospitals have been damaged by airstrikes or shelling in 48 hours.



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