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Two dead in aftermath of Israeli bombing of Syrian port
Smoke rises from a fire in a container storage area at the port of Latakia, when it was bombed for the first time early this month

by Steve Sweeney
International editor

AT LEAST two people have died as a result of Tuesday’s Israeli bombing of the Syrian port of Latakia, according to a British-based war monitoring group.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said yesterday that two members of what it described as “a pro-regime militia” had been killed.

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