Syria death toll over 500 as eastern Ghouta bombing continues

Scale of attacks preventing recovery of bodies as medics struggle to treat injured

Bombing raids have killed more Syrians in the besieged enclave of eastern Ghouta before a delayed UN vote on a ceasefire to allow medical and food aid to reach civilians.

Nearly a week into one of the most fierce assaults of Syria's long civil war, over 520 people were dead and thousands more injured, Mi(C)decins Sans Frontiires said.