Powerful car bomb blast hits Damascus: state news agency

July 26, 2016 03:54

A car bomb blast hit an upmarket area of Damascus housing several government buildings, Syrian state news agency SANA reported, saying there were "several wounded".

The explosion took place in front of a 10-storey building in the Kafar Sousse district in the southwest of the war-torn country's capital yesterday, an AFP journalist at the scene said.

Debris littered the ground, including pieces of metal apparently from the vehicle used in the blast, which the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said caused casualties, without giving details.

Since Syria's civil war erupted numerous attacks have hit Damascus, a stronghold of President Bashar al-Assad, though they have become less frequent in recent years.

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