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Business News/ News / World/  Rebel car bombs rock Syrian town of Deraa
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Rebel car bombs rock Syrian town of Deraa

At least 20 Syrian security men were killed when two explosives-laden cars drove into a military camp

A demolished car used in a suicide attack at the military officers’ club in the southern Syrian city of Deraa. Photo: AFP (AFP)Premium
A demolished car used in a suicide attack at the military officers’ club in the southern Syrian city of Deraa. Photo: AFP
(AFP)

Beirut: At least 20 Syrian security men were killed when two explosives-laden cars drove into a military camp in the southern town of Deraa on Saturday, an opposition watchdog said, in what appeared to be a double suicide attack by rebel forces.

In a conflicting report, state news agency SANA said three bombs had gone off in the town near the border with Jordan, killing seven people in what it described as a series of terrorist attacks.

Suicide bombings by hardline Islamist militant groups have become a regular feature of the 19-month old uprising against President Bashar al-Assad, though there were no immediate claims of responsibility for Saturday’s attacks in Deraa.

The UK-based opposition Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the first car had driven into a Deraa military camp and exploded. The casualties were caused by the detonation of the second vehicle which followed it, the Observatory said.

The Syrian state media report did not mention a military target.

It said one bomb had gone off in a busy commercial street.

A second - a car packed with anti-tank mines which did not all explode - was set off near a government office, damaging it and nearby commercial and residential buildings, it said.

The Syrian government routinely blames foreign-backed Islamist militants for the anti-Assad revolt, in which the Observatory says about 38,000 people have been killed.

A suicide bomber killed around 50 members of the Syrian security forces in the province of Hama on Monday, the Observatory reported. Reuters

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Published: 10 Nov 2012, 10:18 PM IST
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