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Al-Bab, Syria
Pro-regime forces in Syria opened fire on buses carrying rebels and civilians from Eastern Ghouta, killing a 14 year-old-boy, a monitor said Sunday.
Several other passengers were also wounded by the attack Saturday on the convoy that left the town of Douma under a Russia-brokered evacuation deal, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Passengers on the convoy told AFP after arriving in the northern province of Aleppo that gunfire had killed one person and wounded three others, all from the same family, but gave no details on the victim.
The attack on the buses came shortly after the United States, France and Britain struck regime sites in Syria in response to an alleged deadly regime chemical attack on the town of Douma on April 7.
Rescuers and medics have said the alleged attack killed more than 40 people, but Damascus and Moscow have dismissed the reports as"fabrications".
Douma was the final rebel holdout in an almost two-month regime assault to reconquer the last opposition bastion outside Damascus.
