Dozens Killed, Wounded in Syria Funeral Explosion
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A car bomb killed 12 people at a funeral in the mainly Druze and Christian suburb of Jaramana on the southeastern outskirts of the Syrian capital on Tuesday.
"Another 48 people were wounded, many critically, in a terrorist car blast that targeted a funeral procession in Jaramana," State TV said.
"At around 3 pm (1200 GMT), a funeral procession was making its way to the cemetery, when a car parked on the side of the road exploded, killing and inuring many people," an army official told AFP.
The funeral was held for two supporters of the government of President Bashar al-Assad who were killed in a bomb attack on Monday, the Britain-based Observatory said.
Several buildings in the area struck by the blast suffered heavy damage, said an AFP photographer at the scene, adding that that the facade of one building was completely destroyed.
The walls of some buildings were badly charred by the blast, in footage aired by pro-regime television channel Al-Ikhbariya, and the windows of apartments several stories up were shattered.
An enraged woman dressed in a white tank-top came out of her home onto her balcony to shout down at onlookers at the scene of the blast: "Leave! Get out of here!"
State media blamed rebel fighters for the bombing.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by moqawama.org
A car bomb killed 12 people at a funeral in the mainly Druze and Christian suburb of Jaramana on the southeastern outskirts of the Syrian capital on Tuesday.
"Another 48 people were wounded, many critically, in a terrorist car blast that targeted a funeral procession in Jaramana," State TV said.
"At around 3 pm (1200 GMT), a funeral procession was making its way to the cemetery, when a car parked on the side of the road exploded, killing and inuring many people," an army official told AFP.
The funeral was held for two supporters of the government of President Bashar al-Assad who were killed in a bomb attack on Monday, the Britain-based Observatory said.
Several buildings in the area struck by the blast suffered heavy damage, said an AFP photographer at the scene, adding that that the facade of one building was completely destroyed.
The walls of some buildings were badly charred by the blast, in footage aired by pro-regime television channel Al-Ikhbariya, and the windows of apartments several stories up were shattered.
An enraged woman dressed in a white tank-top came out of her home onto her balcony to shout down at onlookers at the scene of the blast: "Leave! Get out of here!"
State media blamed rebel fighters for the bombing.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by moqawama.org
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