{"id":913,"date":"2017-10-02T14:43:49","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T14:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/madaresharghi.com\/deadly-suicide-bombings-hit-damascus-police-station\/"},"modified":"2017-10-02T14:43:49","modified_gmt":"2017-10-02T14:43:49","slug":"deadly-suicide-bombings-hit-damascus-police-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madaresharghi.ir\/en\/deadly-suicide-bombings-hit-damascus-police-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Deadly suicide bombings hit Damascus police station"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A double suicide bomb attack hit a police station in Syria’s capital Damascus on Monday, state media said, with a monitor saying at least 11 people were killed.<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
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\n\tDamascus has been largely insulated from the worst of the violence during the country’s brutal six-year war, but several bomb attacks have shaken the city, AFP reported.<\/p>\n

\n\tSyria’s Interior Ministry said two suicide bombers had blown themselves up at the police station in the southern district of Midan, leading to the “deaths of a number of civilians and a number of policemen”.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based monitor of the war, said at least 11 people were killed in the attack, among them six police officers.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe monitor also reported that a car bomb had been detonated during the attack, but state media made no mention of a third blast.<\/p>\n

\n\tInterior Minister Mohammed Shaar told reporters that one of the attackers had managed to enter the police station and reach the first floor of the building.<\/p>\n

\n\tState television showed images of damage from inside the building, with a black police uniform shirt covered in dust lying in the rubble of partially collapsed walls.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe entire front of one room on the first floor had been blown out by the explosion, and inside what remained, twisted bits of metal were scattered across the rubble.<\/p>\n

\n\tPolicemen carried one body away from the scene wrapped inside a white tarpaulin.<\/p>\n

\n\tDamascus has also been rocked by occasional bomb blasts throughout the Syrian conflict, including previous attacks on Midan, a middle-class residential and shopping district.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn December 2016, three police officers were wounded when a seven-year-old girl walked into the neighbourhood’s police station wearing an explosive belt that was remotely detonated.<\/p>\n

\n\tTerrorist groups have been gradually expelled from territory in the capital they once held, though they maintain a presence in a handful of positions, including the Jobar neighborhood.<\/p>\n

\n\tThey also hold territory in the Eastern Ghouta region outside the capital, and have regularly launched rockets into the city.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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