Aleppo’s Car Explosion Kills 25, Ibrahimi to Visit Tehran after Damascus
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A car bomb killed 27 people and wounded 64 in a northern district of Aleppo, according to state-run media.
SANA news agency said "terrorists were responsible for a booby-trapped a car which exploded outside the al-Hayat and Central Hospitals."
State-run TV aired footage that showed destroyed buildings and rescue workers trying to pull people from the rubble.
The victims included an 18-year-old nurse.
In video aired on Syrian television, one man cried, "I know her - she is a nurse in the hospital!" as victims were carried away from the wreckage. "This is the freedom you want? These were hospitals treating people."
It also showed footage of twisted wreckage and mangled and charred bodies, apparent victims of the bombing, being transported from the scene in a pickup truck. Outraged rescuers and residents shouted in despair as camera lights illuminated the scene of destruction.
No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack but al-Qaeda-style suicide bombings have become increasingly common in Syria, and Western officials admitted that Islamist extremists have joined the so-called "Free Syrian Army."
The governor of Aleppo province, Mohammed Wahid Akkad, was quoted on ad-Dounia TV channel as saying that "two car bombs may have been involved in the attack. The explosions targeted a pair of nearby hospitals."
"They don't have a message, except destruction," said the governor, who assailed governments in Turkey and Saudi Arabia for providing support to opposition forces. "They want people to be afraid, to leave Syria. That is their goal, total destruction.... Until when will this terrorism continue?"
According to Syrian authorities, Islamic militants from Iraq and elsewhere with car-bombing expertise have slipped into Syria. In many cases, no one claims responsibility for the car bombings. That appeared to be the case in Sunday's blast in Aleppo's Malaab Baladi district.
The attack came ahead of UN peace envoy al-Akhdar Ibrahimi's arrival in Syria to try to broker an elusive peace in the crisis-wracked country.
Ibrahimi, who has said he is "scared" of the task facing him, arrived in Cairo ahead of talks Monday with Arab League officials, Egypt's President Mohammad Mursi and other leaders as he finalizes plans for his visit to Damascus.
His spokesman Ahmad Fawzi said the date of Brahimi's visit to Syria will be scheduled once the final details of his program are set.
Iran's Mehr news agency quoted an official as saying Brahimi was also contemplating visiting Iran after Damascus.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by moqawama.org
A car bomb killed 27 people and wounded 64 in a northern district of Aleppo, according to state-run media.
SANA news agency said "terrorists were responsible for a booby-trapped a car which exploded outside the al-Hayat and Central Hospitals."
State-run TV aired footage that showed destroyed buildings and rescue workers trying to pull people from the rubble.
The victims included an 18-year-old nurse.
In video aired on Syrian television, one man cried, "I know her - she is a nurse in the hospital!" as victims were carried away from the wreckage. "This is the freedom you want? These were hospitals treating people."It also showed footage of twisted wreckage and mangled and charred bodies, apparent victims of the bombing, being transported from the scene in a pickup truck. Outraged rescuers and residents shouted in despair as camera lights illuminated the scene of destruction.
No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack but al-Qaeda-style suicide bombings have become increasingly common in Syria, and Western officials admitted that Islamist extremists have joined the so-called "Free Syrian Army."
The governor of Aleppo province, Mohammed Wahid Akkad, was quoted on ad-Dounia TV channel as saying that "two car bombs may have been involved in the attack. The explosions targeted a pair of nearby hospitals."
"They don't have a message, except destruction," said the governor, who assailed governments in Turkey and Saudi Arabia for providing support to opposition forces. "They want people to be afraid, to leave Syria. That is their goal, total destruction.... Until when will this terrorism continue?"
According to Syrian authorities, Islamic militants from Iraq and elsewhere with car-bombing expertise have slipped into Syria. In many cases, no one claims responsibility for the car bombings. That appeared to be the case in Sunday's blast in Aleppo's Malaab Baladi district.
The attack came ahead of UN peace envoy al-Akhdar Ibrahimi's arrival in Syria to try to broker an elusive peace in the crisis-wracked country.
Ibrahimi, who has said he is "scared" of the task facing him, arrived in Cairo ahead of talks Monday with Arab League officials, Egypt's President Mohammad Mursi and other leaders as he finalizes plans for his visit to Damascus.
His spokesman Ahmad Fawzi said the date of Brahimi's visit to Syria will be scheduled once the final details of his program are set.
Iran's Mehr news agency quoted an official as saying Brahimi was also contemplating visiting Iran after Damascus.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by moqawama.org
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