13 December 2012 - 09:27

Sixteen people were killed and more that 25 wounded, including women and children, in a car bomb in Qatana, a town 25 kilometres southwest of Damascus, Lebanon’s al-Manar television channel said on Thursday.

(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) -  A terrorist explosion took place on Thursday in Ras al-Nabe' area in Qatana city in Damascus Countryside.

Sixteen people were killed and more that 25 wounded, including women and children, in a car bomb in Qatana, a town 25 kilometres  southwest of Damascus, Lebanon’s al-Manar television channel said on Thursday.

Qatana is part of a string of outlying suburbs and towns where President Bashar al-Assad’s forces have been trying to push back rebels. The attack follows three bombs which exploded at the Interior Ministry on Wednesday evening, killing five.

Three bombs collapsed walls in the Syrian Interior Ministry building Wednesday in Damascus, killing at least five people and 23 others were injured in the attacks, according to a statement by the Interior Ministry.

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