16 May 2012
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Local News Iranian pilgrims die in bus crash Ten Iranian pilgrims were killed on November 10 when the bus transporting them to Damascus overturned. The Iranians had been on their way to visit Syria’s religious sites. According to Iranian media reports the bus, carrying pilgrims from the Iranian city of Hamedan, crashed at 5am some 50km from Damascus. Around 30 people were rushed to the nearby Garra Hospital for treatment. Fight on farm leaves one man dead A fight between Bedouin shepherds and two farmers in Dera’a left one man dead and another seriously wounded, Syria News reported on November 6. The fight started after two farmers asked local Bedouin shepherds not to graze their cattle on their land. When the Bedouin men refused, the brawl broke out leaving one farmer dead and the other seriously burned. Police would not disclose any further information. Woman gives birth to four-legged baby A Syrian woman gave birth to a baby with four legs in Aleppo on October 19, the Syrian Arabic-language daily newspaper Baladna reported. The baby is reported to be in good health. The defect was caused by the incomplete twinning of the embryo. ‘They were one-egged twins but they stopped developing at the early stages due to a pelvic genetic defect,” Director of the Children’s Hospital in Aleppo Ahmed Sheikh said. “Therefore, only growth in the lower parts of the body continued.” Sheikh said separation surgery would be performed. |
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