Blasts kill more than 100 in Syrian government stronghold - monitor

Record ID: 102319

  • Title: Blasts kill more than 100 in Syrian government stronghold - monitor
  • Date: 23rd May 2016
  • Summary: JABLEH, LATAKIA PROVINCE, SYRIA (MAY 23, 2016) (VIDEO OBTAINED BY REUTERS) VARIOUS OF MANGLED CARS AT THE SITE OF THE EXPLOSION / PEOPLE WALKING THROUGH DAMAGE PEOPLE INSPECTING A DAMAGED TRUCK
  • Embargoed: 7th June 2016 10:50
  • Keywords: Jableh explosions blasts coast wreckage Tartous suicide bombs Syrian Observatory for Human Rights
  • Location: JABLEH, LATAKIA PROVINCE, SYRIA
  • City: JABLEH, LATAKIA PROVINCE, SYRIA
  • Country: Syria
  • Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace
  • Reuters ID: LVA0014J13J2F
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text:Bomb blasts killed more than 100 people in the Syrian coastal cities of Jableh and Tartous on Monday (May 23), monitors said, in a government-controlled area that hosts Russian forces.
    Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attacks in the Mediterranean cites that have up to now escaped the worst of the conflict, saying it was targeting supporters of President Bashar al-Assad.
    Scores were wounded in at least five suicide attacks and two car bombs, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, the first assaults of their kind in Tartous, where government ally Russia maintains a naval facility, and Jableh.
    State media reported that a car bomb and two suicide bombers attacked a petrol station in Tartous. In Jableh, one of the four blasts hit near a hospital, state media and the Observatory reported.
    The Syrian Observatory said at least 53 people were killed in Jableh, and 48 in Tartous.
    The interior ministry said in a statement more than 20 people had been killed, and one state media outlet put the death toll at 45 people.
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