14 die in two bomb blasts in Damascus
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June 12, 2013, Wednesday
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TWO suicide bombers hit a central Damascus square yesterday, killing at least 14 people, activists and the state media reported.
Activists said one of the explosions took place inside the police station there and that many among the dead were policemen.
Syrian state TV quoted a security official as saying 14 people died in explosions caused by two terrorist suicide bombers near a police station in the bustling Marjeh Square in the heart of the capital. The official said another 31 were wounded.
The state Ikhbariya TV station broadcast footage of broken shop facades and mangled cars in the central square as ambulance workers were seen carrying the wounded on stretchers.
Marjeh Square was scene to previous attacks earlier this year.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which has a network of activists on the ground in Syria, said 15 were killed in the explosions, one of which was caused by a man who blew himself up inside the police station in the square. The Observatory said the other blast occurred outside the police station.
It was not immediately possible to reconcile the two accounts.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility.
Activists said one of the explosions took place inside the police station there and that many among the dead were policemen.
Syrian state TV quoted a security official as saying 14 people died in explosions caused by two terrorist suicide bombers near a police station in the bustling Marjeh Square in the heart of the capital. The official said another 31 were wounded.
The state Ikhbariya TV station broadcast footage of broken shop facades and mangled cars in the central square as ambulance workers were seen carrying the wounded on stretchers.
Marjeh Square was scene to previous attacks earlier this year.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which has a network of activists on the ground in Syria, said 15 were killed in the explosions, one of which was caused by a man who blew himself up inside the police station in the square. The Observatory said the other blast occurred outside the police station.
It was not immediately possible to reconcile the two accounts.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility.
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