Damascus, August 24 (RHC)-- Terrorist mortar attacks around the Syrian capital, Damascus, have left ten people dead and 53 others wounded. Syrian official news agency, SANA, reported on Sunday that the mortar shells targeted the Central Prison and the al-Wafedeen Camp.

The Syrian Interior Ministry and a police source said five mortar shells hit the Central Prison in Adra district, killing ten, including several prison guards, and injuring 50 people. Three more mortar strikes carried out by the Takfiri militants hit three residential houses in the al-Wafedeen Camp in the Damascus countryside, injuring three people.

Al-Wafedeen Camp houses thousands of displaced families forced out of their homes in the Golan area after the territory was occupied by the Israeli regime forces in 1967. Six women are said to be among the fatalities.

Takfiri militant attacks on Saturday on the al-Wafedeen Camp and also in Harasta area on the outskirts of Damascus had left four other civilians injured.