SCATTERED INCIDENTS IN SYRIA SHATTER SHAKY EID CEASEFIRE

 

Fighting has reportedly erupted in a Damascus suburb and around an army base in northern Syria, as truce marking the Eid al-Adha holiday crumbled almost before it had begun. 

 

Syrian rebel fighters claim three people have been killed by tank fire and snipers in Harasta, a town near Damascus.

 

Meanwhile the  Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says rebels are trying to storm the Wadi al-Daif army base, and that troops had fired artillery at a nearby village. 

 

The Syrian military had said it would hold fire on Friday morning, following an appeal by international mediator Lakhdar Brahimi for a pause in fighting which has killed 32,000 people so far. 

 

But violations by both sides swiftly marred the shaky truce. 

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