Twin bombing kills at least 33 in Damascus Old City

Twin bombs killed at least 33 people and wounded more than 100 in the Old City of Damascus on Saturday in a rare attack in the Syrian capital, a monitoring group and state media said.


A roadside bomb detonated as a bus passed and a suicide bomber blew himself up in the Bab al-Saghir area, which houses several Shia mausoleums that draw pilgrims from around the world, the UK-based Syrian "Observatory for Human Rights" said.

The SANA state news agency reported that "two bombs planted by terrorists exploded near the Bab al-Saghir cemetery in Bab Musalla", killing 33 people and injuring more than 100 others.

Hezbollah's al-Manar TV put the death toll at 40, adding that most of the victims were Iraqi.
  [aljazeera.com]
11/3/17