Car explosion kills at least one in Syria’s Damascus
Al Jazeera
The explosion comes as an Israeli drone attack reportedly targeted a car and a truck near Syria’s border with Lebanon.
A car explosion has killed one person in Syria’s capital Damascus, Syrian news agency SANA reported, without identifying the victim.
“One person was killed when an explosive device exploded in their car in the Mezze district,” a police official quoted by SANA said.
The Mezze neighbourhood of Damascus houses the Iranian consulate, destroyed last month in a strike blamed on Israel. The attack at the time killed seven people including two Iranian generals and a member of the Lebanese Shia group Hezbollah, and triggered a direct Iranian military assault on Israel for the first time, prompting fears of a region-wide war.
Rami Abdurrahman, who heads the UK-based opposition war monitor the the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), said the man killed in the explosion was a Mezze resident who carried a card identifying him as a Syrian army officer. Abdurrahman said the dead man had close ties to Iran.
Security incidents, including blasts targeting military and civilian vehicles, occur intermittently in the capital of war-ravaged Syria.
