Bomarding killed 21 people in Syria

Beirut : A residential buildings were bombarded by regime forces in a town in eastern Syria on friday killiing at least 21 people in which most of them are women, a human rights watchdog said.

At least one building collapsed after the air and artillery strike in the town of Mayadin, the director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Rami Abdel Rahman, told.

At least 12 women had lost their life, while dozens of people wounded in the bombardment.

Mayadin, a town of about 55,000 people, lies on the Euphrates river in the province of Deir Ezzor.

The Observatory has a network of activists on the ground in Syria but its information cannot be independently confirmed because of tough restrictions on reporting in the country.