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Summary A car bomb exploded in the Ghazi Ayyash neighbourhood of Deir Ezzor, said state television.
A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden car outside security headquarters in Syrias biggest eastern city of Deir Ezzor on Saturday, killing seven people and wounding 100, the government said.A car bomb exploded in the Ghazi Ayyash neighbourhood of Deir Ezzor, said state television, adding the blast was carried out by a terrorist suicide bomber and caused widespread material damage.Foreign Ministry spokesman Jihad Makdisi said on Twitter that there were seven martyrs and 100 injured in a suicide explosion, which involved 500 kilos (1,100 pounds) of explosives).However, state news agency SANA spoke of a booby-trapped car.There was no claim of responsibility for the bombing but, as typically happens in such cases, the opposition blamed it on the regime of President Bashar al-Assad.The Syrian National Council places on the Syrian regime the entire responsibility... for the criminal bombings in several Syrian cities, including the one today in Deir Ezzor, the exile group said in a statement.These repetitive blasts are part of the regimes plan to reap chaos and trouble, given that it failed to repress the revolution of the Syrian people.The blast occurred on a road housing a military and air force intelligence headquarters and a military hospital, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.Television images showed a large bloodstain on the ground, a damaged building and vehicles charred by the blast, as well as smoke rising from the district.Residential buildings and public and private installations near the site of the terrorist attack suffered serious damage, the television said.The attack was the first of its kind in Deir Ezzor since an anti-regime uprising broke out in Syria in March last year.It came a day after Syrian troops foiled a would-be car bombing in the same city, which is about 110 kilometres (70 miles) upstream from the Iraqi border on the Euphrates River.Elsewhere, a rocket slammed into ruling Baath party offices in northern Aleppo province on Saturday, a monitoring group said, a day after unprecedented anti-regime protests in the provincial capital of the same name.Unidentified gunmen targeted a Baath party office in Aleppos Al-Bab town with a rocket-propelled grenade, the Observatory said.Immediately after the Aleppo attack, clashes broke out between the gunmen and guards, but there were no reports of any casualties.And the Observatory said there was a large explosion in Douma, outside Damascus, but gave no details.In Jabal Azzawya, in the flashpoint northwestern province of Idlib, clashes caused an unknown number of casualties, the Britain-based watchdog said, after a series of explosions were heard in the restive area.The rights group added that three military vehicles were targeted in Jabal Azzawya, while one of the attacks was carried out with a rocket-propelled grenade.On the outskirts of Sarmada town, also in Idlib province, clashes broke out between regime troops and armed rebels, the monitoring group added.What started out as a popular uprising has over time developed into an increasingly militarised revolt, after President Bashar al-Assads regime used force to crack down on peaceful protesters across the country.According to the Observatory, more than 12,000 people have been killed in Syria since the revolt broke out in March last year, most of them civilians.
