Israel Matzav

Double bombing in Damascus (with video)

In Damascus on Thursday morning, two bombs went off on a highway and tens of people have been killed. Israel Radio reports that it's not clear yet whether a terror organization like al-Qaeda is behind that attack or whether the Syrian government is behind the attack. This bombing happened at a junction in Jarmana (apparently a very busy traffic intersection in southern Damascus). This is from London's Daily Telegraph:

"Two explosions caused by terrorists took place on the freeway in the south of Damascus," state television said, adding that the blasts occurred "as people were heading to work and children to school."

Residents said the explosions rattled windows and sent plumes of smoke billowing into the sky.

Television footage at the site of the blasts, which took place on a freeway in the south of the capital, showed an apocalyptic scene with charred bodies and the carcasses of vehicles with smoke still rising from them.

The report did not give a breakdown on the number of people killed and those wounded, but said most of the casualties were civilians.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based monitoring group, said the explosions occurred at an intelligence services base in Damascus. It said at least one of the blasts was caused by a car bomb.

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The blasts came a day after a bomb attack on a UN observer convoy in the southern city of Dera'a, which injured six Syrian troops escorting the vehicles.

Here's a brief video report from Euronews.

Let's go to the videotape.



As you can see, and as Israel Radio reported, there are people sitting dead in their cars, and the cars look like they were attacked by an aerial bombing and not - as was the case - by one car bomb and one other bomb.

Labels: al-Qaeda, Bashar al-Assad, Damascus, Syrian uprising

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 10:45 AM