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14:28, 02-Jul-2017
At least 20 dead after multiple car bombs hit Damascus
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(Updated: 22:00 p.m. BJT)
At least 20 people were killed and 30 others injured after a suicide bomber detonated his vehicle in Tahrir Square in Damascus following a police chase on Sunday morning, Xinhua News Agency reported citing a local pro-government broadcaster.
The police chased three cars in the morning, intercepted two and destroyed them, SANA news agency reported.
A suicide bomber on board the third car detonated it as the police were closing in.
Al Ekhbariya TV said 30 others were injured.
Most of the victims were reported in the third blast near the Tahrir Square, which damaged 56 cars and the facades of three residential buildings, a military source told Xinhua.
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It is the biggest attack in the Syrian capital since a series of suicide blasts in March.
An anonymous source told China's Xinhua News Agency that the terrorists had aimed to detonate the cars in the capital's crowded areas, as people returned to work after Eid al-Fitr holiday, which marked the end of the holy month of Ramadan.
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