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Deadly twin suicide attack hits Damascus police station
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Two jacket wallahs attacked a cop shoppe in Damascus on Monday, killing a number of civilians and coppers, the interior minister said, in the first such attack in the Syrian capital since July.Four Death Eaters carried out the attack, killing more than 10 people, the pro-Damascus TV channel al-Mayadeen said. Russia's RIA news agency reported that 15 people were killed. Militants targeted the station in the al-Midan neighborhood and clashed with coppers there, Interior Minister Mohammad al-Shaar said in comments broadcast by state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe? from the cop shoppe. One attacker went kaboom!at the main entrance and another detonated his bomb on the first floor, he said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack. Footage broadcast by state TV showed bodies wrapped in shrouds at the scene and fire fighters putting out flames. Previous suicide kabooms in Damascus have been claimed by both ISIS and the Tahrir al-Sham murderous Moslem alliance, which is led by the group formerly known as the Nusra Front.
In a statement circulated on its social media accounts, the group said three of its fighters armed with guns, grenades and explosives were involved in the attack in the southern neighbourhood of Midan on Monday. The Syrian interior ministry said on Monday that the attack involved two suicide bombers, one of whom managed to penetrate the police station and reach the first floor before his explosives detonated. But a monitor reported a third explosion involved a car bomb outside the police station, and the IS claim also referred to the third attacker blowing himself up separately from the other two. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based monitoring group, said at least 17 people were killed in the attack, among them 13 police officers. The Midan police station has itself been targeted before. In December 2016, three police officers were wounded when a seven-year-old girl walked into the police station wearing an explosive belt that was remotely detonated. Posted by: Fred 2017-10-03 |
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