Syrian regime claimed that a seven-year-old girl carrying a belt of explosives had rocked a police station in southeast Damascus on Friday, such a claim has been condemned by activists and opposition.
The explosion in the bustling Midan neighborhood of the Syrian capital wounded three police officers, said the Al-Watan daily, which is close to the regime.
"A seven-year-old girl entered the police station, carrying a belt that was detonated from afar," the paper posted on its Facebook page.
A police source told Al-Watan that she had appeared lost and asked to use the bathroom when the explosives went off.
Although rebel groups have fired rockets and mortar rounds into the capital, explosions inside the city itself are rare.
Syrian state news agency SANA said earlier there were preliminary reports about a "terrorist explosion at the Midan police station in Damascus".
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights confirmed there had been a blast in Midan but said it could not specify the cause.
Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP that "one woman" was killed in the blast, but it remained unclear whether she was a suicide bomber or a bystander.
In early 2012, a suicide bomber killed 26 people when he blew himself up in Midan.
Syria has been suffering of a devastating civil war since early 2011, when al-Assad regime suppressed peaceful demonstration, which erupted in March same year.
Since then, more than 310,000 thousand people have been killed and more than 10 million displaced across the war-torn country, according to the UN.
Other source estimates that 470,000 people were killed according to the Syrian Centre for Policy Research, a Beirut-based NGO. (With AFP)
The explosion in the bustling Midan neighborhood of the Syrian capital wounded three police officers, said the Al-Watan daily, which is close to the regime.
"A seven-year-old girl entered the police station, carrying a belt that was detonated from afar," the paper posted on its Facebook page.
A police source told Al-Watan that she had appeared lost and asked to use the bathroom when the explosives went off.
Although rebel groups have fired rockets and mortar rounds into the capital, explosions inside the city itself are rare.
Syrian state news agency SANA said earlier there were preliminary reports about a "terrorist explosion at the Midan police station in Damascus".
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights confirmed there had been a blast in Midan but said it could not specify the cause.
Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP that "one woman" was killed in the blast, but it remained unclear whether she was a suicide bomber or a bystander.
In early 2012, a suicide bomber killed 26 people when he blew himself up in Midan.
Syria has been suffering of a devastating civil war since early 2011, when al-Assad regime suppressed peaceful demonstration, which erupted in March same year.
Since then, more than 310,000 thousand people have been killed and more than 10 million displaced across the war-torn country, according to the UN.
Other source estimates that 470,000 people were killed according to the Syrian Centre for Policy Research, a Beirut-based NGO. (With AFP)
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