Car bomb kills 19 in Syria
20 May 2012 2:33 PM IST
A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden car outside security headquarters in Syria's biggest eastern city of Deir Ezzor on Saturday, killing nineteen people and wounding 100, the government said.
‘A car bomb exploded in the Ghazi Ayyash neighbourhood of Deir Ezzor,’ said state television, adding the blast was carried out by a ‘terrorist suicide bomber’ and caused widespread ‘material damage.’
Foreign Ministry spokesman Jihad Makdisi said on Twitter that there were seven ‘martyrs’ and 100 injured in a ‘suicide explosion’, which involved 500 kilos of explosives.
The state news agency spoke of a ‘booby-trapped car’. There was no claim of responsibility but the opposition blamed it on the regime of President Bashar al-Assad.
‘A car bomb exploded in the Ghazi Ayyash neighbourhood of Deir Ezzor,’ said state television, adding the blast was carried out by a ‘terrorist suicide bomber’ and caused widespread ‘material damage.’
Foreign Ministry spokesman Jihad Makdisi said on Twitter that there were seven ‘martyrs’ and 100 injured in a ‘suicide explosion’, which involved 500 kilos of explosives.
The state news agency spoke of a ‘booby-trapped car’. There was no claim of responsibility but the opposition blamed it on the regime of President Bashar al-Assad.
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