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14 killed in car bomb blast in Syria's Daraa

Xinhua, March 31, 2015 Adjust font size:

At least 14 people were killed Tuesday when a booby-trapped car went off in the Syria's southern province of Daraa, a monitoring group reported.

Two kids were among those killed in the blasts, which occurred in the town of al-Jizeh in the countryside of Daraa, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

It added that the death toll could rise due to the large number of critically wounded people.

Separately, the Observatory said at least 32 people were killed, including women and children, by a surface-to-surface missiles launched by the Syrian government troops against the northwestern city of Idlib, which was overran by the al-Qaida-linked militants earlier this week.

The UK-based watchdog group said many dead bodies are still buried under the rubble.

The activists' account, however, could not be independently verified.

The al-Qaida-linked Nusra Front and affiliate groups have unleashed broad offensives in Idlib and Daraa in recent weeks, and since then, the Syrian government forces ramped up shelling against their positions in these areas. Endit