Rockets kill two people in Latakia

August 13, 2015 1:19 PM

The rockets hit the city centre, and state television showed footage of burning cars and people running from the scene.

Rockets kill two people in Syria's Latakia - state media

At least two people were killed when rockets hit Latakia on Thursday, state media said, in a rare attack on the Syrian coastal city that is a bastion of President Bashar al-Assad.

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The city has largely been spared the violence of the more than four-year Syrian civil war, which has killed a quarter of a million people.

There was no claim of responsibility for the attack, which state media said had been carried out by "terrorists", a term it uses to describe insurgents fighting to topple Assad.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a British-based monitor of the war, said the attack killed at least one person and wounded 14 others.

It came days after insurgents gained ground in the Sahl al-Ghab plain east of Latakia province.