October 17, 2016 07:29 pm | Updated December 01, 2016 06:29 pm IST - BEIRUT:
A car bomb exploded on Monday in a southern district of Damascus which is home to an important Shia shrine, with initial reports of casualties, monitoring group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
The British-based Observatory said the blast took place near a checkpoint used by the Syrian army and its allies.
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