Beirut: A mortar bomb killed three people and wounded 12 more in a market place in northeast Damascus on Sunday, Syrian state television reported, after months of relative calm in the capital.
The bomb exploded in a market in Saroujah district just northeast of the city centre, the report said, citing a source in the capital's police headquarters. It described it as a "terrorist attack" without giving further details.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility but insurgents based in the Eastern Ghouta region near Damascus have carried out rocket and mortar bomb attacks on the capital in the past.
Damascus, the seat of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government, came under heavy bombardment in late 2014 and early 2015.
However in recent months the capital has been mostly shielded from worsening violence elsewhere in the country where insurgent groups have been confronting the Syrian military on several fronts, more than four years since civil war erupted.
The bomb exploded in a market in Saroujah district just northeast of the city centre, the report said, citing a source in the capital's police headquarters. It described it as a "terrorist attack" without giving further details.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility but insurgents based in the Eastern Ghouta region near Damascus have carried out rocket and mortar bomb attacks on the capital in the past.
However in recent months the capital has been mostly shielded from worsening violence elsewhere in the country where insurgent groups have been confronting the Syrian military on several fronts, more than four years since civil war erupted.
© Thomson Reuters 2015
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