Suicide bombing hits Damascus; casualties feared

DAMASCUS - 2 July 2017: A suicide bomber has blown himself up in the Syrian capital, Damascus, killing and injuring a number of people, Russia Today reported on Sunday.

The bomber was in one of three cars, each with bombs, that had been pursued by Syrian authorities. The two other bombs were destroyed by police at a separate location in western Damascus, state TV said.

“Authorities were pursuing three cars with bombs inside and managed to blow up two of them before entering the city,” the statement from state TV said.

Police surrounded the third car in Tahrir Square, where “the terrorist blew himself up resulting in people dead and injured,” TV added without elaborating on the figures