Damascus - Several people were killed and others wounded on Sunday when a suicide bombing struck an eastern district of Damascus, Syrian state television reported. It said security forces intercepted three suicide car bombers on Sunday morning, blowing up two at the entrance to the city. The third was able to enter Damascus and detonated a bomb after being surrounded, causing several deaths and leaving a number of people wounded. Syrian state news agency SANA quoted a senior police official saying that "terrorists simultaneously blew up three cars," two of them on the road to Damascus airport southeast of the capital and a third in the eastern Sahat Al-Tahrir district. "The terrorist bombings killed and wounded several civilians and caused physical damage to the area," the official said.
