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DAMASCUS, April 23 (KUNA) -- Five policemen were killed and five others
were injured in a shootout with a group of gunmen who attacked a checkpoint in
Nour town on the outskirts of Damascus, an official source said here Saturday
evening.
"The shootout caused the death of two gunmen as well as the injury of five
other with varying wounds," the state-run Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA)
quoted the same source as saying.
The source said that one of the military checkpoints at Izraa Area came
under fire from an armed group, though military elements opened fire on the
attackers in what caused the death of two military guards, and one of the
attacking armed group and the flight of others.
An official source said yesterday the killing of eight, and the injury of
twenty eight others including servicemen in an attack launched by an armed
group against the Izraa Directorate, and a military checkpoint there. (end)
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