According to Israel Radio reports quoting foreign news agencies including Syrian-based media, ?senior government officials? were among the 20 estimated dead in a Wednesday morning 28 Tammuz 5772 suicide bombing attack in Damascus.
A suicide bomber blew himself up in a national security building according to reports. Syrian media reports are confirming that country?s defense minister was among those killed.
Additional information will be reported as it becomes available.
13:33 IL: Syrian state-run television is confirming that the country?s defense minister, General Dawoud Rajiha was among those killed in the suicide bombing attack earlier today.
13:41 IL: It appears the bombing attack occurred while senior state officials were attending a meeting in the building. CNN is quoting ?Syrian Observatory for Human Rights? as reporting it was a car bomb attack but Israel Radio; quoting ?Syrian media? reports it was a suicide bomber. Israel Radio adds the country?s interior minister was seriously wounded in the attack.
14:00 IL: Israel Radio adds that the minister of the interior and deputy chief of staff were killed in the blast along with the nation?s defense minister.
Al-Jazeera reporting from Beirut: In addition to the nation?s defense minister, ?other senior officials were killed?. It appears the reports regarding the deputy chief of staff and interior minister are unconfirmed at this time.
(YWN ? Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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