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Huge damages in the national Museum of Aleppo

The National Museum of Aleppo was attacked in the recent days, by the fall of a large number of missiles and explosive bombs, fired by armed extremist gangs, which led to a badly damaged in the construction structure of the museum, and it included the partial destruction of the concrete ceiling in different parts of the Museum, a big damages in infrastructure, exterior doors, the offices of employee & Museum curators, and destruction the room of the generators, parts of the Museum outer fence.

We, at DGAM, condemn these systematic and brutal attacks on the National Museum of Aleppo.

Read entire article at dam.gov