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There was widespread panic, but it was not immediately clear if anyone had been wounded or killed. File photo for representation.
Two rockets struck the Russian embassy in Damascus today sparking panic as several hundred people gathered to express their support for Moscow's air war in Syria, an AFP photographer said.
According to the photographer at the scene, some 300 people had begun to gather for a demonstration thanking Russia for its recent intervention in Syria when the rockets crashed into the embassy in the Mazraa neighbourhood of the capital.
There was widespread panic, but it was not immediately clear if anyone had been wounded or killed.
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