'Dozens more deaths in East Ghouta'

damascus - Heavy shelling has cost the lives of dozens of people in East Ghouta, a rebel stronghold near the Syrian capital Damascus. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, based in the United Kingdom, said that at least 27 people were killed on Wednesday. Another 200 people would have been injured.

In the past three days, according to the observatory, there were at least 299 deaths in the area. The Syrian regime has been besieging the enclave for years, but it has intensified the shelling on Sunday. The pro-government troops would fire East Ghouta with rockets, artillery shells and air raids.

Aid organizations and the United Nations give an alarm about the humanitarian situation in the area, where hundreds of thousands of people live. 'Wounded dying just because they can not be helped in time', said the head of the Red Cross in Syria, Marianne Gasser. 'Our teams must be admitted immediately to East Ghouta to help the wounded. '