{"id":13353,"date":"2015-10-13T08:16:05","date_gmt":"2015-10-13T13:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=13353"},"modified":"2015-10-13T08:16:05","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T13:16:05","slug":"several-shells-explode-outside-russian-embassy-in-damascus-during-pro-russia-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=13353","title":{"rendered":"Several shells explode outside Russian embassy in Damascus during pro-Russia rally"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Several shells have exploded outside the Russian embassy in Damascus during a pro-Russia rally. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that the shelling of the embassy is an act of terror.<\/p><\/div>\n

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It was intended to scare supporters of the fight against terrorists, Lavrov\u00a0added.<\/p>\n

Local journalist\u00a0Alaa Ebrahim, reporting from the scene in Damascus, told RT\u00a0hundreds of people gathered in front of the embassy on Tuesday, thanking the Russian Air Force for its support of the Syrian Army in its battle against terrorism across the country. According to Ibrahim, about half an hour after the rally started, one of the shells fell about 200 meters from the location of the peaceful demonstration. Luckily, no one was injured.<\/p>\n

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Alaa Ibrahim said that the participants of the rally, members of the students’ union as well as political parties’ representatives, had been waving Russian flags and were carrying banners saying \u201cWe Support Unity between Russia and Syria.\u201d Some chanted slogans in support of the strikes launched by the Russian air force, others held up photographs of Russian President Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe first shell fell at around 10am, some 200 meters from the participants. Police immediately told people to disperse. About 6 minutes later, the other shell hit. Police again tried to force people to disperse for fear those may turn to be just initial shots, and if the new shells are be launched, all of these people would die. People dispersed by about 11am. Most began to disperse immediately after the first shell exploded,”<\/em>\u00a0Ibrahim said.<\/p>\n

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An embassy employee told RIA Novosti\u00a0news agency that there were no injured among the staff.<\/p>\n

\u201cTwo shells landed on the territory of the embassy this morning,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0First Secretary of the Russian Embassy in Damascus Eldar Kurbanov confirmed in an interview with TASS, adding that there have been no casualty reports.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Several shells explode outside Russian embassy in Damascus during pro-Russia rally\u00a0 \u00a9 RT \/ Ruptly Several shells have exploded outside the Russian embassy in Damascus during a pro-Russia rally. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that the shelling of the embassy is an act of terror. TrendsRussian anti-terror op in Syria,\u00a0Syria unrest It was intended […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[189,9844,8114,694,9843,9845,776,792],"class_list":["post-13353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-damascus","tag-explosions","tag-rt-news","tag-russia","tag-russian-embassy","tag-sergey-lavrov","tag-syria","tag-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13354,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13353\/revisions\/13354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}