24 killed in car bombing near Damascus: state TV
December 13, 2012 21:39
AFP reports: At least 24 civilians, including a large number of children, were killed in two separate car bombings southwest of Damascus today, state media reported. Eight people, mostly women and children, were killed by a car bomb in the poor Sunni town of Jdaidet Artuz, state television reported.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said four civilians were killed in the blast. Less than eight kilometres away, a similar blast rocked the town of Qatana earlier in the day, leaving 16 people dead, seven of them children, state news agency SANA reported.
"This morning, terrorists targeted the residential area of Ras al-Nabaa with a vehicle loaded with explosives, blowing it up in front of the Mikhael Samaan school," the agency said. It blamed the attack on "terrorists," the standard regime for rebels.
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