Damascus: At least 27 people were killed and many others injured when two suicide bombers detonated cars packed with explosives in near-simultaneous attacks on heavily guarded intelligence and security buildings in Damascus, Syrian interior ministry said.
The interior Ministry said that the early morning explosions struck the heavily fortified air force intelligence building and the criminal security department, several miles apart in Damascus, at approximately the same time.
The explosions wounded 140 civilians and security personnel, the interior ministry said.
The regime blamed the opposition, which denied having a role or the capabilities to carry out such a sophisticated attack. And after other similar attacks, U.S. officials suggested al-Qaeda militants may be joining the fray.
SANA, state-run news agency, said a third blast went off near a military bus at the Palestinian refugee camp Yarmouk in Damascus, killing the two suicide bombers.
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