Ghouta residents 'wait to die' amid bombs

By Dahlia Nehme and Lisa Barrington
Updated February 22 2018 - 8:11am, first published 8:07am
Hospitals have been hit and 310 people killed in the intense bombardment of Syria's Ghouta district.
Hospitals have been hit and 310 people killed in the intense bombardment of Syria's Ghouta district.

Residents of Syria's eastern Ghouta district say they are waiting their "turn to die", amid one of the most intense bombardments of the war by pro-government forces on the besieged, rebel-held enclave near Damascus.

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