A man holds a child after an airstrike in the besieged town of Douma in eastern Ghouta in Damascus, Syria. Nearly 200 people have died in four days of intense bombardment in the area, whose 400,000 residents have been besieged since 2013. Bassam Khabieh/Reuters
CNN: UN human rights chief condemns bloody week in Syria
Waves of deadly airstrikes against rebel-held areas in Syria have made this week "one of the bloodiest periods of the entire conflict," the UN human rights chief said Saturday.
Opposition-controlled areas in Syria's northwestern province of Idlib and Eastern Ghouta, outside the capital, Damascus, have suffered intensified bombardment by what observers say are Russian-backed Syrian government forces.
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein called for urgent international action to halt the bloodshed after reports of 277 civilian deaths between Sunday and Friday. More than 800 civilians also were reported injured, the UN human rights office said.
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