Blast heard on southern edge of Damascus: state TV

CAIRO (Reuters) - An explosion was heard near a highway at the southern edge of Syria's capital Damascus on Sunday morning, Syrian state media reported. The head of the city's civil defense, Asef Hababe, told Reuters the blast came from military technicians detonating a bomb. State TV had said earlier that initial reports pointed to a terrorist attack, and that a number of people were injured. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based war monitoring group, said the blast struck near a security post. ...

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