Bomb explosions rock Syrian capital

Two bombs have struck the Syrian capital Damascus, according to state media and opposition activists.

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Friday, 07.09.2012.

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DAMASCUS Two bombs have struck the Syrian capital Damascus, according to state media and opposition activists. A motorcycle bomb in the Rukn al-Din area killed at least five members of the security forces, state TV said. Bomb explosions rock Syrian capital Hours later, a car bomb struck the district of Mazzeh, near the Ministry of Information. It is not clear whether there were any casualties. The blasts came as opposition activists said 55 people had been killed in fighting across the country on Friday. Earlier on Friday the head of the international Red Cross said his talks with President Bashar al-Assad had been "positive". Peter Maurer said they had focused on the need to reduce barriers to delivering aid and ensure aid workers could gain access to detainees. "What we have today is commitments, what we have is a mechanism to implement those commitments," he added. "But we will have, of course, to witness whether commitments and mechanisms are producing results." Officials said the first bomb targeted people as they left a mosque after Friday prayers in Rukn al-Din, a residential area not far from the centre of Damascus. But the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that the blast had been aimed at a security patrol. In addition to the five dead, six members of the security forces were wounded, several of them seriously, the UK-based activist group said. The Associated Press said the bomb went off across the street from the mosque and damaged a clinic as well as six cars. There have been a series of bombings in the capital since the uprising against Assad began in March 2011. Officials have blamed "terrorists". Opposition activists, however, maintain that the security forces planted the bombs to discredit the peaceful protesters. Elsewhere in Damascus on Friday, activists reported heavy shelling by government forces in the southern districts of Daf al-Shouk, Tadamon, and the densely-populated Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp. The Local Co-ordination Committees, an activist network, said at least 16 people had been killed in the violence, including five in Yarmouk. (Beta, file) BBC

Bomb explosions rock Syrian capital

Hours later, a car bomb struck the district of Mazzeh, near the Ministry of Information. It is not clear whether there were any casualties.

The blasts came as opposition activists said 55 people had been killed in fighting across the country on Friday.

Earlier on Friday the head of the international Red Cross said his talks with President Bashar al-Assad had been "positive".

Peter Maurer said they had focused on the need to reduce barriers to delivering aid and ensure aid workers could gain access to detainees.

"What we have today is commitments, what we have is a mechanism to implement those commitments," he added. "But we will have, of course, to witness whether commitments and mechanisms are producing results."

Officials said the first bomb targeted people as they left a mosque after Friday prayers in Rukn al-Din, a residential area not far from the centre of Damascus.

But the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that the blast had been aimed at a security patrol.

In addition to the five dead, six members of the security forces were wounded, several of them seriously, the UK-based activist group said.

The Associated Press said the bomb went off across the street from the mosque and damaged a clinic as well as six cars.

There have been a series of bombings in the capital since the uprising against Assad began in March 2011. Officials have blamed "terrorists". Opposition activists, however, maintain that the security forces planted the bombs to discredit the peaceful protesters.

Elsewhere in Damascus on Friday, activists reported heavy shelling by government forces in the southern districts of Daf al-Shouk, Tadamon, and the densely-populated Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp.

The Local Co-ordination Committees, an activist network, said at least 16 people had been killed in the violence, including five in Yarmouk.

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