Syria: Damascus rocked by suicide bomb

A suicide car bomb has exploded in the main business district of Damascus, killing at least 15 people, setting cars ablaze and damaging buildings, according to state television.

A Damascus resident described the blast as the biggest she had heard in the capital during the two-year-old revolt against Syria's president, Bashar al-Assad. She said large plumes of black smoke were rising from the Sabaa Bahrat district.

State television said the explosion occurred near a school in Sabaa Bahrat, a heavily populated area that also houses the central bank and the finance ministry. It said 53 people were wounded.

It showed footage of seven bodies in the street, including at least two charred corpses in the wreckage of an overturned bus. The fire brigade was dousing flames from cars crushed by the blast. Other vehicles were still on fire in what appeared to be a car park.Men carried away a woman on a stretcher, her face covered in blood. Panic-stricken women in long black dresses and headscarves ran towards the scene. State television showed some bandaged children in school uniform.

Explosion Claims Bombers’ Lives In Kano

Two separate bomb attacks targeted at the Joint Task Force checkpoint at Maiduguri road and police check point at eastern bypass, both in Kano metropolis have claimed the lives of two of the suspected bombers.

According to the State police commissioner, Musa Daura, the explosive which targeted the JTF checkpoint was remote controlled and buried in the ground very close to the checkpoint.Mr Daura added that the person that targeted the police checkpoint disguised as a water truck seller pushing a truck towards the checkpoint with one other person giving him cover on a motorcycle. However, on throwing the explosive, it hit the motorcycle rider and killed both of them on the spot.The commissioner further disclosed that no police officer was killed or injured from the attacks, adding that four other people were arrested while attempting to attack the police after the explosion.Meanwhile, three police officers and one local security officer attached to a local government secretariat were killed during an attack at Ganye local government area of Adamawa state.Residents told Channels Television that gun men on a motorcycle numbering about ten staged a prison break, and set ablaze the local government police divisional headquarters and the local government secretariat, killing the four people in the two separate locations.

Courtesy: Channels Tv