A car bomb that exploded outside a defence ministry building in Damascus Tuesday killed one Syrian soldier and wounded at least 18 people, authorities said. No group has yet claimed to be responsible for the attack.
One Syrian soldier was killed and at least 18 people were wounded by a car bomb that exploded on Tuesday outside a defence ministry building in Damascus, authorities said.
Soldiers had discovered a different bomb near the building in the capital's Bab Sharqi district and were trying to dismantle it when the car bomb went off nearby, the ministry said in a statement carried by state media.
The head of Syria's ambulance and emergency directorate, Najib al-Nassan, told state-owned agency SANA that 18 wounded people had been taken to hospitals after the explosion.
No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack.
In June last year, an explosion in a Damascus church killed 25 people. Little-known Sunni extremist group Saraya Ansar al-Sunna claimed responsibility for the attack, while authorities blamed the Islamic State group.
(FRANCE 24 with Reuters and AFP)
