A booby-trapped vehicle went off on Sunday night in front of a military checkpoint in a suburban area of Syria's capital Damascus, leaving three injuries among government troops and material damages, dpa reorted quoted pro-government media as said.
The blast occurred at Ein Tarma suburb, said the report, adding that clashes erupted afterwards between armed groups and the troops. The report said the car bomb was meant to detonate at the checkpoint but it went off before destination.Details surrounding the incident remained murky with the absence of official comments.
The Syrian army has unleashed a military campaign to flush out armed insurgency from the suburbs of Damascus.An official at the Syrian Red Crescent said in a statement to Xinhua Sunday that a team grouping members of the Red Crescent and International Red Cross entered the suburb of Douma Sunday to assess the humanitarian need there after the area witnessed severe clashes over the past days amid reports that the city is now clean of armed rebels and under the government forces' control.
Meanwhile, the opposition activists' network, Local Coordination Committees, said that as many as 69 people were killed Sunday nationwide, 14 of whom killed in suburbs around Damascus.
It said government troops have shelled the suburb of Dumair, adding that artillery shells have been fired at Kafr Halab area in northern Aleppo province. Yet the opposition's report couldn't be independently checked.
Clashes around the capital have become daily occurrences.