DAMASCUS -- An Israeli missile attack hit a residential building in west Damascus on Saturday, killing four people, Syria's state media.

The state news agency SANA said the building was in the Mazzeh neighborhood of Damascus, giving no further details.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war monitor said four people were killed in the attack.

Meanwhile, an eyewitness living in the area told Xinhua that he heard the sounds of four to six missiles passing in swift succession and saw white smoke rising from an area he suspected to be in the west of Mazzeh.