A bomb attack hit near the Russian embassy in the Syrian capital Thursday but caused no casualties, state media said, in the second such blast in Damascus in less than a week.
A bomb attack hit near the Russian embassy in the Syrian capital Thursday but caused no casualties, state media said, in the second such blast in Damascus in less than a week.
Eight years into Syria’s devastating civil war, President Bashar al-Assad’s regime is in control of almost two-thirds of the country.
Until last week, Damascus had enjoyed more than a year of respite from planted explosives.
On Thursday, state news agency SANA reported “a terrorist bombing in the Adawi area” in the northeast of the capital.
An explosive device was planted in a car, it said, “causing material damage but no casualties”.
Images on state media showed the mangled remains of a sky blue car. A scorched jumble of metal appeared where the car seats once were, but part of its bonnet had survived.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war monitor, said the blast hit near the embassy of key government ally Russia, lightly wounding four people.
The explosion came after another in Damascus on Sunday, which the Observatory said hit “near a security branch in the south of the city”.
The monitoring group reported “some people killed and injured” in that attack, though state media said there were no victims.
