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Syria: Twin blasts kill 8

| | Jun 11, 2016, at 11:22 pm
Damascus, June 11 (IBNS): At least eight people were killed and 13 others were injured as two blasts hit Damascus countryside in Syria on Saturday, media reports said.

A source at Damascus countryside police command told SANA news agency of the country that the first blast occurred by a suicidal who blew up a belt at the entrance of Assayidah Zainab town while the second was by a booby-trapped car at al-Tin Street at the vicinity of the town.

Several houses and vehicles have been damaged in the area where the blasts occurred, reports said.

 

Photo: ©UNESCO/Véronique Dauge
 

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