DAMASCUS COUNTRYSIDE,(ST)_At least two civilians have been wounded by detonation of an explosive device on Damascus-Homs highway, a police command source declared on Saturday.
The source was quoted on the official news agency as saying that terrorists detonated an explosive device they had planted on Damascus-Homs highway near the ‘Rahmeh’ fuel station in Duma area outside Damascus.
Two civilians inside a car were wounded by the blast, the source said.
Duma area has witnessed repeated terrorist attacks against civilians.
Ten days ago, a child was wounded when a terrorist sniper opened fire at a bus picking up civilians there.
Tomb of Sheikh al-Jilani
On the other hand, an armed terrorist group blasted yesterday the tomb of Sheikh Abdulqader al-Jilani in Kherbet Zienab town in the eastern countryside of al-Salameyeh in Hama province after booby trapping it.
A police command source in Hama province told the official news agency that the terrorist group chained a civilian and his son to the shrine before blasting it.
The civilian and his son were martyred by the blast which caused damages to civilians’ houses in Kherbet Zienab town.
B. Qaddour