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Bulgarian journalist and foreign reporters injured during Latakia shelling

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A group of international reporters, including a Bulgarian, came under artillery fire in the Syrian province of Latakia. Reports emerged about a wounded journalist from Bulgaria, as well as about injured reporters from Canada and China. The artillery shelling took pace in an area close to the border with Turkey, said spokesman of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Igor Konashenkov. According to a source from the Syrian army, the fire came from Jabhat al-Nusra Islamist group, which is not part of the ceasefire agreement.




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