Monday 23 May 2016

Syria War: Deadly Bomb blasts in Assad Territory (Photos)

State media in Syria reported that series of car and suicide bombings has hit two government territory on Syria's Mediterranean coast.

It was also in the news that at least 78 people were killed, while a monitoring group put the death toll at more than 120.

Four bombings targeted bus stations in the port city of Tartous and in Jableh, a town to the north, which have until now escaped the worse of the civil war.

A news agency linked to so-called Islamic State (IS) said the jihadist group was responsible for the attacks.

Amaq cited an IS source as saying militants had targeted "gatherings of Alawites", a reference to the heterodox Shia sect to which President Bashar al-Assad belongs.

The state news agency, Sana, cited a police source as saying that 45 people were killed and many others, most of them women and children, were injured in Jableh.

It reported that two bombs exploded at the main entrance of the town's bus station.

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