DAMASCUS, Dec 12, 2012 (AFP)
DAMASCUS, Dec 12, 2012 (AFP)
Three bombs struck outside the interior ministry in Damascus on Wednesday leaving dead and wounded, state media reported, without giving a precise breakdown of the casualties.
“Three terrorist explosions, including one caused by a car bomb, struck the interior ministry in Kfar Sousa” in the southwest of the capital, the official SANA news agency reported. “Several people were killed and injured.”
Images from the scene broadcast by the pro-government Al-Ikhbariya television channel showed piles of rubble, and blood on the ground.
The adjacent building housing the Egyptian embassy was also hit, Egypt’s official MENA news agency reported.
“An embassy employee was injured, and the building was damaged,” the news agency quoted Egyptian diplomat Alaa Abdel Aziz as saying.
Several bombings have struck Damascus since an uprising against President Bashar al-Assad’s rule erupted in March last year, among them suicide attacks.
Most blasts have targeted government and security buildings.
Earlier on Wednesday, two bomb attacks killed one person and wounded others in Damascus and a southeastern suburb of the capital, SANA reported.
