Fifteen killed in car bomb explosion in Damascus

A car bomb rocked a busy residential and commercial district in central Damascus on Monday, killing at least 15 people and causing heavy material damage, a Syrian government official said.

The blast, which state-run Syrian TV described as a terrorist suicide bombing, went off near the Sabaa Bahrat Square, one of the capital’s biggest roundabouts. The Syrian Central Bank, a mosque and a school are located nearby.




A massive cloud of black smoke rose from the area as ambulances rushed to the scene.

Monday’s blast is the latest in a series of car bombs and suicide bombings to hit the Syrian capital. The last such explosion in central Damascus was on February 22, when a suicide car bombing near the ruling Baath Party headquarters killed 53 people and wounded more than 200, according to State media.

Anti-regime activists at the time put the death toll at 61, which would make it the deadliest bombing in the capital in the two-year Syrian civil war.

TV images on Monday showed thick black smoke billowing in a wide street with several cars on fire. At least six bodies were seen lying on the street. Paramedics were seen carrying on a stretcher a young woman wearing a jeans skirt, her face bloodied, into an ambulance.

Shaken teenage students holding their backpacks were seen walking away. The TV said the blast occurred near the Bukhari School.

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