Deadly bombing hits Syria interior ministry

December 12, 2012 23:32

Three bombs struck outside the interior ministry in Damascus today 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.

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