Car bomb blast near Damascus kills 8: NGO

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At least 8 people were killed in a car bomb blast near Syrian capital Damascus.

14 October,2012 05:24 am

A car bomb blast killed eight people, including a child and two women, near the Syrian capital on Saturday in what was once a regime stronghold, a monitoring group said.Eight civilians, including a young girl and two women, were killed and 13 others critically injured by a car bomb blast in Al-Nabak on the road linking Damascus to Homs, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.The blast targeted participants in an anti-regime demonstration, Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP.Amateur video posted on YouTube by activists and distributed by the Observatory showed a badly damaged white vehicle, with its side door charred and the back blasted away.It was not clear who was behind the attack, Abdel Rahman said.