VIDEO: Rebels Shoot Down Syrian Warplane After Deadly Air Strike Over Damascus Suburb -- New York Daily News
‘It’s gone up in flames!’ someone shouts in amateur video posted online of the attack. At least 20 people were killed during the air strike, which wounded dozens on the ground.
Amateur videos posted online purportedly show a Syrian warplane shot down Wednesday by rebels in the thick of intense fighting.
The attack came on the heels of an air strike on a suburb of the Syrian capital of Damascus that reportedly killed at least 20 people and left a dozen more buried under rubble.
“It’s gone up in flames! Allahu Akbar (God is greatest)!” a person shouts in one of the videos, according to Agence France-Presse. “The (rebel) Free Syrian Army air defense battalions have hit a MiG warplane!”
Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights distributed video of the incident that shows what appears to be heavy machine-gun fire striking the plane, which then drops from the sky.
“The shelling and bombardment in Eastern Ghuta province on Wednesday was fierce,” Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP on Wednesday.
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Update: Rebels down Syria warplane as air raid kills 14: NGO -- Global Post/AFP
My Comment: The civil war has certainly arrived at the Syrian capital.
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