Amazon Is Laying Off Dozens of Its Engineers

Jeff Bezos, chief executive officer of Amazon, unveils the Fire Phone in June 2014.

It’s the first time Amazon has cut employees at its Lab126, a report says

Many of the engineers behind Amazon’s failed Fire phone are getting the boot, according to The Wall Street Journal.

The online retail giant is cutting dozens of employees from Lab126, the hardware outfit that develops products such as the Fire phone, the Kindle, and Amazon’s Echo, the paper said.

This is the first time Amazon has ever laid off employees from Lab126, sources told the Journal. Some projects in the works, such as a large-screen tablet, have also been scuttled as part of a restructuring process. Amazon is reportedly still working on a high-end kitchen computer code-named Kabinet that would serve as a hub for the smart home of the future.

Amazon declined to comment to the Journal, and did not immediately return a request for comment from TIME and Fortune.

Amazon’s Fire phone was supposed to take on the iPhone and high-end Android handsets head-on, but the device failed to find mass appeal. Amazon took a $170 million write down on unsold Fire phone inventory last fall.

Government Air Raids Kill Dozens Near Syrian Capital

Syrian citizens look for survivors after a government warplane crashed in the center of the town of Ariha, in the northwestern province of Idlib, Syria on Aug. 3, 2015.

Syrian government air raids on rebel-held areas have killed thousands over the past few years

(BEIRUT) — Syrian government warplanes attacked a busy market in a rebel-held suburb of the capital Damascus on Sunday, killing at least 67 people and wounding more than 200 in one of the deadliest single incidents involving government airstrikes since the crisis began nearly five years ago, activist said.

Syrian government air raids on rebel-held areas throughout the country have killed thousands over the past few years.

The air raids on the market in Douma occurred during rush hour when people were out shopping on the first working day of the week in Syria, the activists said.

Rami Abdurrahman, who heads the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said four missiles were fired at the market, killing 70 and wounding more than 200 hundred. He said the death toll is expected to rise because many of the wounded are in critical condition.

The Local Coordination Committees, another activist group, said the air raids killed 67 and wounded 200, adding that rescue workers are digging through the rubble in search of survivors.

“The situation is catastrophic,” a Douma-based activist who goes by the name of Mazen al-Shami told The Associated Press via Skype. He said clinics in the area are full and many of the wounded are being rushed in civilian cars to other medical facilities since ambulances are overwhelmed.

Al-Shami said mosque loudspeakers are issuing calls for residents to donate all types of blood. He added that hundreds of people were in the busy market when the first missile struck the area, inflicting heavy casualties.

Syria’s civil war, now in its 5th year, has killed more than 250,000 people and wounded at least a million.