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Media Source Says 200kg of Explosives Used in Syria Car Blast
Text of report by state-run Syrian news agency SANA news agency website, Damascus in Arabic 27 Sep 08
["Seventeen Civilians Killed, 14 Others Wounded in a Booby-Trapped Car Explosion in Al-Muhaliq al-Janubi Street in Damascus" - SANA Headline]
Damascus, 27 Sep (SANA)
- An official media source has said that a booby-trapped car exploded at 0845 [0545 gmt] today on Al-Muhaliq al-Janubi Street in Damascus, in an area crowded with civilians, near Sayidah Zaynab crossroad. The explosion resulted
in the killing of 17 civilians and the wounding of 14 others.
The source added that the explosives in the car are estimated to have weighed 200 kg. The Central Counterterrorism Unit has started the investigations to
uncover the identity of the perpetrators.
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