Damascus hit by suicide blast, two others blocked


(MENAFN) Security forces chased three explosive-laden cars amid Damascus, blocking two of them at checkpoints but failing to stop the third before it exploded in the city center, murdering 20 people.

Accordingly, security forces tracked all three cars and intercepted two of them at checkpoints on the airport road.

Additionally, the blast that killed 20 people in the Bab Touma area near the Old City had also hurt dozens of women and children.

Furthermore, government forces attacked them with chlorine gas overnight and the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights proclaimed 12 fighters were treated for suffocation.

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