A mortar shell hit the Chinese embassy in Syria’s capital Damascus on Monday, damaging the building and wounding one person
A mortar shell hit the Chinese embassy in Syria's capital Damascus on Monday, damaging the building and wounding one person, C
hinese state media reported.
China's state news agency Xinhua said opposition forces had launched the shell, damaging the compound's walls and shattering some windows. A Syrian employee suffered minor injuries, it said, without adding details.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said in a statement that China was "shocked by the incident and strongly condemns it".
Syrian state news agency SANA reported that mortar shells had landed near the embassy but did not mention any casualties.
The Iraqi consulate in the same neighborhood was hit by a mortar shell last week, killing an Iraqi woman, and a shell struck the Russian embassy a few days earlier, wounding three people.
