Bomb blasts kill 20 in Sayyida Zeinab mosque of Damascus

20 people were killed in two bombs blasts outside the Sayyida Zeinab mosque in Damascus. This is the holiest Shiite shrine in Syria. The first blast was by a suicide attacker who was wearing an explosives belt and took place at the entrance of Ziabiyeh district. The second one was the result of a suicide attacker in a car rigged with explosives in al-Teen street.
The attacks came as Sunni and Shia Muslims are celebrating the holy month of Ramadan.
This has been reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 11 June 2016.

ISIS have subsequently claimed responsibility for the attack. However, Syria's Prime Minister Wael al-Halqi has blamed Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, for being behind the 'brutal massacres'. As per information with the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), a British-based monitoring group, the death toll was 12 with 30 wounded.
The holy shrine is located six miles south of the center of Damascus and is heavily guarded by Assad regime forces. In spite of that, it has been the target of several attacks by ISIS and their acolytes. The last attack on Sayyida Zeinab was on April 25 in which at least seven were killed and dozens wounded. Earlier, in January, there was another attack claimed by ISIS in which 70 people died.


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