DOUMA: A rocket-propelled grenade exploded on Sunday near a team of UN truce observers, including mission head Major General Robert Mood, as they were visiting theDamascus suburb of Douma, an AFP correspondent reported.
The rocket caused no injuries, the journalist said.
The RPG landed about a dozen metres away from where the team stood in Douma, a northern suburb of the Syrian capital as violent clashes between rebels and regime troops were underway, the journalist said.
Mood and UN peacekeeping chief Herve Ladsous were among the team of observers, the journalist added.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that regime troops had launched rockets both near and into Douma.
After the observers left the area, a civilian was shot dead in Douma by a sniper, the Observatory said.
The AFP correspondent said the streets of Douma were deserted, and most of its shops were closed. Posters had been torn off the walls and rubbish containers overturned.
Pro- and anti-regime slogans filled the walls of what appeared to be a ghost town. "Douma will not kneel except before God," read one slogan, while another read "Assad's soldiers were here."
"When the observers leave, the armed men will come back to cause trouble," one soldier told reporters at the scene, in a reference to rebels who have taken up arms over the course of the anti-regime revolt.
TheDamascusregime refers to the rebels as "armed terrorist groups."
One man who was out buying food refused to be filmed by journalists at the scene. "Please, don't film me. When you leave, they'll kill me," he said, without elaborating further.
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