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\n\t\t\tThe so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Sunday that over a dozen other people\u00a0were wounded, some critically, after the rocket blasted in the vicinity of the entrance of the 59th Damascus International Fair, three days after its opening.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tIt added that the death toll could likely rise as the seriously injured may succumb to their wounds.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\u201cWe were preparing to receive visitors when I heard an explosion… then I saw smoke from the side of the entrance to the exhibition hall,\u201d said Iyad Jaber, 39, a Syrian working at a textile stand.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThe Syrian capital has been largely insulated from most of the rampant violence by foreign-backed terrorist groups, which is still underway almost across the Arab country, but several key militant enclaves remain in the Eastern Ghouta region outside Damascus.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tDuring the past few years, terrorists based in the Eastern Ghouta region have occasionally fired mortar shells at residential neighborhoods in the Syrian capital, inflicting casualties and causing material damage to properties. The Sunday shelling is also suspected to be launched from this region.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThe Damascus International Fair, once the top event on Syria’s economic calendar, was not held during the last six years, months after the outbreak of deadly foreign-backed militancy in the Middle Eastern country.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThis year’s trade fair, which opened on Thursday and was scheduled to last 10 days, has attracted the participation of 43 countries, 23 of which through their respective embassies in Damascus and 20 others through a number of their trade firms.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tBouthaina Shaaban, the political and media adviser to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, said on Friday that the trade fair could be perceived as a big victory for the Arab nation and a major blow to terror groups.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\u201cThe exhibition is a defeat for their project, but it does not mean that we have won the war completely. We are just at the beginning of the road towards reconstruction and rebuilding Syria,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tSyria has been fighting different foreign-sponsored militant and terrorist groups since March 2011. UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura estimated last August that more than 400,000 people had been killed in the crisis until then.<\/p>\n

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