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Aleppo’s Armenian-populated Villaner neighborhood came under heavy rocket attack on November 13, according to a report posted on Perio News’ Facebook page. 

Five ethnic Armenians were injured in the attack. They have been named as Hakob Davoyan, Harut Pazarpashian, Raffi Perperian, George Gevorg and Tigran Manukian.

They were transported to Aleppo University Hospital.

On Monday, November 11, mortar fire struck a school bus in front of the Armenian school as children were boarding to go home. The two young victims were identified as 6-year-old Hovhannes Atokhanian, a first grader at the school, and Vanessa Mikho Bedros, a third grader.

On the same day, mortar rounds also hit St. John of Damascus, another Christian community school in Damascus. “The toll in the terrorist targeting of the St. John of Damascus school with mortar rounds has risen to five dead, all of them children, and 27 injured,” a news alert on Syrian state television said.