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Sunday, May 20, 2012  
Suicide attack kills 9 in eastern Syrian city
A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden car outside security headquarters in Syria’s biggest eastern city on Saturday, killing nine people and wounding 100, state media said. Ten more people were killed in violence across the country. The attack, the first of its kind in Deir Ezzor city since a crisis began in Syria in March last year, came as US President Barack Obama said the G8 wanted a political transition in the country and Damascus accused some Lebanese areas of helping Al Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood to take root along the Syrian border. A ‘terrorist suicide bomber’ used 1,000 kilograms (2,200 pounds) of explosives in the attack on the Deir Ezzor neighbourhood of Ghazi Ayyash, said state television. The powerful explosion left a crater 3.5 metres (8.2 feet) deep and damaged buildings within a radius of 100 metres (yards), the channel said, adding a four-year-old girl was among those critically injured. It occurred on a road housing a military and air force intelligence headquarters and a military hospital, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Images broadcast on state television showed a large bloodstain on the ground, a damaged building and vehicles charred by the blast, as well as smoke rising from the targeted district. “Residential buildings and public and private installations near the site of the terrorist attack suffered serious damage,” the television said. There was no claim of responsibility for the bombing but, as typically happens in such cases, the opposition blamed it on the government, which said it was the latest proof that an uprising....... more...
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