Syria: Blast Hits Hotel Used by UN
Syrian State hotel reported that a bomb attached to a fuel truck exploded Wednesday outside a Damascus hotel where UN observers are staying in the Syrian capital.
The TV said the explosion took place near a parking lot used by the army command, which is about 300 meters (yards) away. None of the wounded were believed to be UN staff.
But according to an Associated Press reporter at the scene, the blast had gone off inside a different parking lot belonging to a military compound near the Dama Rose Hotel, popular with the UN observers in Syria.
The hotel was slightly damaged in the blast, with some of its windows shattered. A Labor Union building across from the hotel was also damaged and black smoke was seen billowing into the sky before the fire was extinguished.
UN officials in Damascus had no immediate comment when contacted by the AP.
Damascus has been hit by a wave of terrorist explosions in the past months.
"Those who carry out such terrorist attacks are destroying their country in order to get some pounds," shouted Ali Mohammed Ismail, 48, who said he happened to be in the area when the explosion occurred.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by moqawama.org
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