Triple terrorist bombings target Interior Ministry,martyring five and injuring 23

DAMASCUS, (ST)- Triple blasts targeted Interior Ministry on Wednesday evening, damaging  the  Ministry façade in  Kafar Souseh suburb of Damascus. Damascus, martyring five and injuring 23.

“At 5:20 PM on Wednesday 12/12/2012, three explosions took place in front the Interior Ministry building, two of them caused by explosive devices with a delay between the two, followed five minutes later by the explosion of  a booby-trap car carrying around 200 kilograms of explosives, martyring five and injuring 23, including civilians and Ministry personnel, said a statement issued by the Interior Ministry

“the competent authorities at the Ministry began investigations and lifted evidence, remains of explosives, and body parts from the site and sent them to labs to uncover the details of this terrorists attack,”added the statement

” the criminal act will not dissuade it from combating terrorism along with the Army and Armed Forces, vowing to exert all its forces and sacrifice everything for the sake of the security of citizens and the country, stressing that it will show no leniency in pursuing murderous takfiri terrorists, “affirmed the Ministry.

Elsewere,terrorists on Wednesday evening detonated an explosive device planted in a public minibus while it was in front of Hafez Ibrahim School in al-Mazzeh 86 neighborhood in Damascus, martyring and injuring a number of civilians including women and children.

“the bodies of two martyrs arrived at the hospital, a child along with three people in critical conditions,” reported SANA.

A source at al-Muwasat Hospital said that the body of one woman who was martyred in the blast arrived at the hospital; along with five injure people, some of them women and children.

M.D