At least six dead and dozens wounded after a motorcycle planted with explosives detonates in a Damascus suburb near a Shia Muslim shrine
The explosion was the second in the Sayida Zeinab neighborhood in the days leading to Ashoura. / Photo: Reuters Archive
Syrian Regime Health Minister Hassan al Ghabash said in a statement that 26 people wounded in the blast in the Sayida Zeinab neighborhood were being treated at several hospitals. Twenty others were treated on-site or discharged, he said. The Britain-based opposition war monitor Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that a woman was among those who died and that her three children were wounded.
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