SYRIA: Funeral for Assad supporters hit by bombing.

Record ID: 281431

  • Title: SYRIA: Funeral for Assad supporters hit by bombing.
  • Date: 28th August 2012
  • Summary: VARIOUS OF THE DAMAGE
  • Embargoed: 12th September 2012 13:00
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  • Location: Syrian Arab Republic
  • Country: Syria
  • Topics: Conflict,Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVABGZBZVSDXAY2U6VAE11RPIATL
  • Story Text: A blast rips through a funeral for two supporters of President Bashar al-Assad, killing 12 people, Syrian state TV says.

    Twelve people were killed and dozens wounded when a car bomb exploded on Tuesday (August 28) at a funeral in Damascus, state television reported, in an attack that an activist group said had targeted supporters of President Bashar al-Assad.
    Witnesses said the bomb exploded at the entrance to a Druze cemetery in the Jaramana district of southeast Damascus, hitting the funeral procession of two men killed in bombings a day earlier.
    One witness said as many as 150 people had been wounded. Another said she saw charred bodies including children. Syrian television said 48 people had been wounded in the "terrorist car bombing".
    The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a British-based opposition body which monitors the violence in Syria, said the two men being buried on Tuesday were supporters of Assad, who is fighting to crush a 17-month-old uprising against his rule.
    The Syrian government restricts the access of independent media, making events in the 17-month-old uprising hard to verify, but a Reuters camera was able to film the aftermath of the Jaramana attack.
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