DAMASCUS – Amid the ceasefire in Syria, militants fired rockets at a busymarket in a suburb of the Syrian capital on Tuesday, according to mediareports.

“The bodies of 35 people killed in rocket fire by terrorists on a marketin Lashkoul area in the outskirts of Jaramana city were delivered to thehospital,” the official was quoted as saying by the SANA news agency.

The conflicting reports on the number of casualties emerged earlier in theday. Some 24 people have been killed and another 32 people have beenwounded in rocket fire, according to a source in police speakingto Sputnik. Syrian state TV has said that 28 eight people were killed.

“The number of victims is not final, as the shelling continues,” the sourcepointed out, saying that several rockets exploded in the historic centerof Damascus, in the Imara district, as well as in the al-Mazzeh district.

The SANA news agency reported earlier that four people were killed and nineinjured in the suburban town of Jarmana, located to the south of the Syriancapital, as a result of the rocket attack.A woman and a child wereamong those wounded, according to the agency.