Syria: Helicopter Crashes In Damascus

The Free Syrian Army said the aircraft had been firing at people in the north-eastern district of Jobar, and that it had crashed in neighbouring Qabun.

State television confirmed that a helicopter had come down in Qabun.

On Sunday, opposition activists said government forces had massacred more than 200 people during their assault on the south-western suburb of Darayya.

Video footage and photographs have emerged, showing scores of bodies, including those of women and children.

State media said the Darayya area was being “cleansed” of armed terrorist groups.

The chairman of the UN Human Rights Council’s Independent Commission of Inquiry on Syria, Paulo Pinheiro, told the BBC the killings might constitute a war crime.

Meanwhile, President Bashar al-Assad called the uprising in Syria a “foreign plot against the whole region”, and vowed to defeat the conspiracy at “any price”.

BBC