Publish Date: 11 March 2017 - 16:50

DAMASCUS, Mar. 11 (MNA) –33 civilians were killed and more than 100 others were injured in the two terrorist bombings that took place Saturday afternoon in Bab Mousalla area in Damascus city, a source at Damascus Police Command told SANA.

Earlier, the source said terrorists detonated two explosive devices near Bab al-Saghir cemetery, located in the area between Bab al-Jabiyah and Bab Mousalla area, leaving casualties and material damage to the cemetery and public and private properties.

Terrorists target residential neighborhoods in Damascus with rocket and mortar shells

Meanwhile, the terrorist organizations targeted with rocket and mortar shells a number of the residential neighborhoods in Damascus City, injuring a number of civilians.

A source at Damascus Police Command told SANA that the terrorist organizations on Saturday morning fired rocket and mortar shells on the area of Damascus Old City and the neighborhoods of al-Shaghour, Ibn Asaker and Bab Touma, injuring a number of civilians and causing material damage to the public and private properties.

Earlier on Friday, a rocket shell, fired by terrorists positioned in al-Qaboun neighborhood and the Eastern Ghota, fell on a residential building in al-Adawi residential neighborhood in Damascus, causing only a material damage.

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