Powerful explosion hits major highway in Damascus
[ALMASDARNEWS] A powerful explosion was reported along one of the major roadways inside Damascus city this morning.
According to a source in Damascus city, a roadside kaboom exploded along the Mezzeh Highway, temporarily closing this roadway as a result of the earth-shattering kaboom.
The source said one woman and her child were maimed during the blast.
No group has grabbed credit for the roadside kabooming in Damascus.
Activist groups said the victims were the wife and son of a pro-government political analyst. Opposition media activists and the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a war-monitoring group, said the victims were analyst Taleb Ibrahim's wife and son. He was not in the car at the time of the blast.
A person who answered Ibrahim's telephone in Damascus confirmed that, without giving further details.
Posted by: Fred 2019-06-28 |