SYRIA: Tight security around National Security HQ following deadly blast.

Record ID: 281057

  • Title: SYRIA: Tight security around National Security HQ following deadly blast.
  • Date: 18th July 2012
  • Summary: DAMASCUS, SYRIA (JULY 18,2012) (REUTERS): CARS IN AL RAWDA SQUARE VARIOUS OF JOURNALISTS NEAR THE BLAST LOCATION POLICE MOTORCYCLE AT THE ENTRANCE OF THE STREET VARIOUS OF A U.N. CAR TRYING TO PASS MEDIA IN THE STREET
  • Embargoed: 2nd August 2012 13:00
  • Keywords:
  • Location: Syrian Arab Republic
  • Country: Syria
  • Topics: Conflict,Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA4R0UM0DIHC6PTQHGF9S55VA26
  • Story Text: Syrian security forces cordon off the area around the National Security headquarters after a suicide bomb attack kills several key figures in President Bashar al-Assad's regime.
    Syrian security forces sealed off roads around the National Security headquarters on Wednesday (July 18) after a suicide bomber, said by a security source to be a bodyguard assigned to President Bashar al-Assad's inner circle, struck a meeting attended by ministers and senior security officials in the Syrian capital.
    Syrian state television said that Defence Minister Daoud Rajha and Assad's brother-in-law, Assef Shawkat, was also killed. The attack is the most serious blow to Assad's high command in the country's 16-month-old rebellion.
  • Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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