DAMASCUS, Jan 23 — Government air strikes on a rebel-held village east of Damascus today killed 32 civilians, including six children, a monitoring group said, denouncing what it called a massacre.

“The number of people killed in a massacre committed by the regime’s warplanes against the village of Hammuriyeh, in the Eastern Ghouta area, has risen to 32, including six children,” said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. — AFP