SYRIA: A Damascus hospital treats patients injured in twin bomb blasts which killed at least forty people and wounded more than one hundred and seventy

Record ID: 280746

  • Title: SYRIA: A Damascus hospital treats patients injured in twin bomb blasts which killed at least forty people and wounded more than one hundred and seventy
  • Date: 11th May 2012
  • Summary: DAMASCUS, SYRIA (MAY 10, 2012) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF HOSPITAL ENTRANCE AMBULANCE DRIVING INTO HOSPITAL VARIOUS OF MEDICAL STAFF TREATING INJURED INSIDE HOSPITAL, INJURED ON STRETCHERS VARIOUS OF PEOPLE WITH MINOR INJURIES, NURSE APPLYING BANDAGE, MAN WITH INJURY ON HIS ARM DOCTOR ADIB MAHMOUD TALKING TO JOURNALIST (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) DOCTOR ADIB MAHMOUD, GENERAL DI
  • Embargoed: 26th May 2012 13:00
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  • Location: Syrian Arab Republic
  • Country: Syria
  • Topics: Conflict
  • Reuters ID: LVA9WZC3LN600IRJ8CCP502NRYPT
  • Story Text: Two large explosions killed at least 40 people and wounded more than 170 in Damascus on Thursday (May 10), state media said, destroying dozens of cars on a highway and damaging an intelligence complex involved in President Bashar al-Assad's crackdown on a 14-month-old uprising.
    Some of the wounded were treated in a Damascus hospital.
    Doctor Abid Mahmoud said emergency workers had found many torn-off limbs at the bomb site.
    "The number of injured has reached 103 for the moment. The number of martyrs [dead] is 29 in addition to eight bags of torn-off limbs."
    Syrian television showed mangled, burnt and smouldering vehicles, some containing incinerated human remains. Bloodied corpses and body parts could be seen on the road.
    The blasts were the deadliest to hit the capital since the revolt began.
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