DOZENS of people have been killed or wounded in an air strike on a service station southeast of Damascus, many of them horribly burned, a watchdog and activists say.
The attack took place on Wednesday near the town of Maliha in the partly rebel-held Eastern Ghuta region of Damascus, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
The watchdog said dozens were killed or wounded but could not immediately give a comprehensive breakdown.
It said the toll was likely to rise because bodies were still being pulled from the rubble, adding that "it is extremely difficult to count the dead because most of the bodies have been immolated".
The Local Coordination Committees, a grassroots network of activists, estimated at least 50 people were killed and dozens of others wounded.
It was not immediately clear if the bomb blasts caused the storage tanks to explode, but the scene was engulfed in fire, which suggests that might have happened.
"MIG warplane strikes on Eastern Ghuta! Dozens of martyrs!" a man shouted out as he and a fellow cameraman raced toward plumes of smoke to survey the damage in a gruesome video posted on YouTube.
A fire extinguisher lay in the street as dozens of men rushed to dig out any survivors from beneath heaping piles of metal and steel I-beams as fires raged beside them.
One man, his face covered in blood, was helped out from the rubble.
Some bystanders stood in shock, staring into space, surrounded by scattered burning vehicles, heaps of metal and pools of blood still wet on the pavement.
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