On October 7 the Syrian capital at dawn was once again rocked by explosions and gunfire. According to the incoming reports, two gunmen attacked a police station in the city center – in the streets of Khalid ibn al-Walid and Midan. Two mined cars were blown up in that area. Army patrols were fired at in Hajar Al Aswad and Tadamun on the southern outskirts of the capital. In Aleppo, as reported by news agency “Al-Watan,” the Syrian troops repelled the rebels attempt to break into the city center. Violent clashes are now taking place near the Municipal Palace and Bustan Al-Basha quarter. There were destroyed 16 jeeps mounted with machine guns in that neighborhood. Another detachment was halted at the approaches to the Square of the Seven Fountains. Special forces blockaded areas Bab al Nasr and Bab al Hadid, as well as the old city market Souk el-Hel, which was the hiding point for the armed attackers. The communique, that the “Al-Watan” referred to, states that the militants that tried to storm the barracks “suffered losses in men and equipment.” Regular troops attacked positions of the rebel groups that had been transferred from the area on the Turkish boarder, to the west from Aleppo – in Anadane and rural Urum-Kubra and Urum-Sughra. According to AFT, in the past 24 hours in different parts of Syria 53 civilians, including 11 women and children, and also 29 soldiers and 25 militants have been killed in the regions affected by the conflict.
