Damascus: At least 15 people were killed and dozens of other wounded after blasts hit a Damascus neighbourhood comprised mostly by members of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s Alawite sect.
According to Syrian state media, an explosion hit the district of Hai al-Wuroud, in the northwest of the capital, causing an unspecified number of deaths and injuries.
Activists said that three bomb explosions were heard and smoke was seen rising from the area in the latest tit-for-tat attack. The hilltop neighborhood is situated near a barracks and housing for elite army units.
Damascus has several hilltop enclaves mostly inhabited by members of the Alawite minority, a sect of Shi’ite Islam that has dominated Syria, which has a Sunni Muslim majority, since the 1960s.
No one has yet claimed the responsibility of the attack but the attacks bore the hallmarks of the Islamic militant groups, blamed for several suicide and car bombings in the capital.
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