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Iraq
Triple suicide attack near Damascus police HQ: Ministry
2017-10-12
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Three jacket wallahs blew themselves up near the main police headquarters building in Syria’s capital Damascus on Wednesday, killing at least one person, the interior ministry said.

Two of the suicide bombers detonated their explosives in front of the police headquarters on Khaled Bin al-Walid street in central Damascus, the interior ministry said in a statement carried by state media.

"The terrorist suicide kaboomers tried to storm the police command headquarters... The guards opened fire on them, forcing them to blow themselves up before they entered the building and achieved their goals," it added.

Police surrounded a third attacker behind the building who also went kaboom!, the statement said.
The interior ministry said one person had been killed and six injured in the attack.

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