Powerful Blast Rocks Damascus: Dozens Martyred
Local Editor
Dozens of people have been martyred in a car bomb attack in Damascus in al-Thawra Street in the surrounding of al-Mazraa neighborhood.
He added that huge material damage was caused to the houses of citizens in the area surrounding the bombing in addition to a huge fire in a large number of cars, noting that the victims are mostly passersby, school students and people driving their cars.
The suicide terrorist who was driving the car was arrested, the reporter noted.
The state news agency published photos of two dead bodies lying in the street.
Al-Ikhbariya showed images of what appeared to be at least four dead bodies on the ground and cars on fire. The footage shows firefighters trying to douse cars on fire and lifeless and dismembered bodies lying on the grass of a public garden.
"I pulled her inside the shop but she was almost gone. We couldn't save her. She was hit in the stomach and head," he said.
Russia's state owned RIA Novosti news agency quoted a Russian Embassy official as saying the Embassy building had been damaged in the blast but no one was hurt.
Not long after the first blast Thursday, a security official reported a second blast in the capital's northeastern Barzeh neighborhood.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by moqawama.org
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