MADAyuMadyan - Rusia
telah mengutuk serangan ke atas kedutaan Damsyik, dan berkata ia menganggap
ini satu “tindakan keganasan”. Satu mortar melanda sebatian diplomatik Rusia misi
pada hari Khamis, dan satu lagi berdekatan, membunuh seorang tempatan dan
mencederakan 9.
Serangan
itu berlaku pada kira-kira 1300 GMT.
“Salah
saya meletup di wilayah perwakilan diplomatik, satu lagi meletup berhampiran
pagar luar kedutaan,” Kementerian Luar Rusia berkata dalam satu kenyataan,
mengulas mengenai kejadian itu.
Sebatian
misi diplomatik telah mengalami kerosakan kecil dan tiada Rusia telah cedera
dalam serangan itu, Kementerian Luar mengesahkan. Walau bagaimanapun, 9 orang
Syria termasuk pengawal keselamatan kedutaan telah cedera dan seorang lelaki
terbunuh.
Kementerian
Luar Rusia menegaskan bahawa “mortar serangan oleh militant” di baha-gian tengah
Damsyik, termasuk serangan di wilayah Kedutaan Rusia, telah menjadi lebih kerap
baru-baru ini.
“[Kami]
melayan mereka sebagai tindakan keganasan, pengganas-pengganas dan mereka yang
mendorong dan mengarahkan mereka mesti dihukum,” kata akhbar- pejabat FM dalam
kenyataan itu. Amerika Syarikat juga telah mengutuk serangan di Damsyik dan
menyatakan “kebimbangan untuk mereka yang terbunuh dan kecederaan dalam
kejadian itu.”
“Kami
mengutuk apa-apa serangan terhadap individu atau kemudahan dilindungi oleh
undang-undang antarabangsa. Amerika Syarikat terus untuk menekankan bahawa
mereka yang bertanggungjawab untuk kekejaman ke atas semua pihak mesti
dipertanggung-jawabkan,” kata Jabatan Negara Amerika Syarikat dalam satu
kenyataan Khamis.
Pada
bulan-bulan baru-baru ini perang saudara yang berterusan di Syria, pemberontak
telah melancarkan beberapa peluru mortar ke dalam daerah Mazraa kelas atasan di
Damsyik, yang menempatkan banyak kedutaan dan pegawai-pegawai kanan Syria.
Terda-hulu pada bulan September, yang mortar melanda kompaun kedutaan Rusia,
mencede-rakan 3 orang.
Sepanjang
hampir tiga3 tahun konflik ketenteraan di Syria, Kedutaan Rusia kekal paling
teruk rosak pada bulan Februari 2013, apabila sebuah bom kereta meletup
berhampiran, membunuh 50 orang di lebuh raya Damsyik. Ketika itu tidak ada
orang yang cedera di kedutaan, tetapi letupan yang meniup tingkap di bangunan.
RUSSIA: Shelling Of
Damascus Embassy that killed 1,
injured 9 is ‘terrorism’ . . .
Russia
has condemned an attack on its Damascus embassy, saying it considers this an
“act of terrorism”. A mortar shell hit Russia’s diplomatic mission compound on
Thursday, and another nearby, killing one local and injuring nine.
The
attack occurred at about 1300 GMT.
“One
mine exploded on the territory of the diplomatic mission, another exploded near
the fence outside the embassy," Russia’s Foreign Ministry said in a
statement, commenting on the incident.
The
diplomatic mission compound has sustained minor damage and no Russians have
been injured in the attack, the Foreign Ministry confirmed. However, nine
Syrians including embassy security guards, have been wounded and one man was
killed.
The
Russian Foreign Ministry stressed that “mortar attacks by militants” in the
central part of Damascus, including attacks on the territory of Russia’s Embassy,
have become more frequent recently.
“[We]
treat them as acts of terrorism, the perpetrators and those who encourage and
direct them must be punished,” the FM’s press-office said in the statement. The
United States has also condemned the attack in Damascus and expressed “concern
for those killed and injured in the incident.”
“We
condemn any attack against individuals or facilities protected by international
law. The United States continues to emphasize that those responsible for
atrocities on all sides must be held accountable,” the US State Department said
in a statement Thursday.
In
the recent months of the ongoing civil war in Syria, rebels have launched a
number of mortar shells into the upscale Mazraa district of Damascus, which
houses many embassies and senior Syrian officials. Earlier in September, a mortar shell hit the
Russian embassy compound, injuring three people.
During
the nearly three-year military conflict in Syria, the Russian embassy sustained
its worst damaged in February 2013, when a car bomb exploded nearby, killing 50
people on the Damascus highway. Back then no one was injured at the embassy,
but the blast blew out windows in the building.
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