Around 250 civilians missing east of Damascus after terrorist attack

Around 250 Syrian civilians are feared kidnapped after an attack by ISIL terrorists on a cement factory east of Damascus, residents say.

An administrator at the plant in the town of Dumeir, 50 km east of Damascus, said on Thursday 250 employees had been unreachable since Monday.

"We haven't been able to reach our family members since noon on Monday after an attack by ISIL on the factory," the AFP news agency quoted a resident as saying.

The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said "dozens" of staff were believed to have been kidnapped by ISIL from the Badiyah cement factory and taken to an unknown location.

The factory, which lies on the outskirts of Dumeir, has been the scene of fierce clashes between ISIL terrorists and Syrian government forces in recent days.

The Takfiri terrorists have sought to wrest control over Dumeir airbase and power plant, but have been unsuccessful so far.

Meanwhile, three people were injured when two rockets fired by ISIL terrorists struck two different areas in the southeastern Turkish city of Kilis close to the border with Syria.

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