DAMASCUS (AFP) – A bomb killed six people and wounded scores on Thursday when it exploded near the Sayeda Zeinab mausoleum in Damascus, the authorities said.
The interior ministry gave a death toll of six, state news agency SANA reported, revising an earlier death toll of five.
More than 20 people were wounded in the attack which the interior ministry said was caused when a motorcycle exploded near a taxi, calling it a “terrorist bombing”.
Health Minister Hassan al-Ghobash visited the wounded in hospital, the ministry said. A source at the nearby Al-Sadr hospital told AFP earlier that the facility had received 10 wounded after a car bombing near the shrine.
State television reported that the explosion was caused by a “bomb placed in a taxi by unidentified people”.
“We heard a huge blast and people began to run,” Ibrahim told AFP. He said the explosion took place “near a security building around 600 metres from the mausoleum of Sayeda Zeinab”, granddaughter of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh).
