Video from Syria shows the aftermath of the explosion that tore through central Damascus on Monday, killing at least 15 people and wounding more than 50, bringing the country’s two-year-old civil war to the heart of the city and its Central Bank, schools, shops and office buildings.
As my colleagues Anne Barnard and Hwaida Saad report from Damascus, the bombing followed claims by the authorities that they had cleared the eastern Ghouta area near Damascus of rebels who are fighting to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad. No group immediately claimed responsibility for Monday’s attack.
Hosein Mortada, a Lebanese journalist working in Syria for Press TV, recorded this video:
My colleague Liam Stack collected other videos for Watching Syria’s War.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights gave a higher figure of 19 casualties, saying 15 were civilians and 4 from the regime’s forces.
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