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1st LD: Twin bombings rock Shiite district in Syria capital, casualties feared

Xinhua, January 31, 2016 Adjust font size:

Two explosions rocked a Shiite district protected by members of the Lebanese Shiite Hezbollah group south of the capital Damascus on Sunday, casualties unknown, a security source told Xinhua.

The twin bombings rocked the sprawling Sayyidah Zaynab district in the southern countryside of Damascus, where a key Shiite shrine with a tomb of Zaynab, the granddaughter of Islam Prophet Muhammad, is located. State media also reported the blasts, stopping shorts of giving more details.

The tomb in Sayyidah Zaynab became a center of religious studies of the adherents of the Shiite sect of Islam and a destination of mass pilgrimage by Shiite Muslims from across the Muslim world.

On June 14, 2012, a suicide car bomb tore through that district, heavily wounding around 14 people. Endit