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Urgent: 8 killed as car bomb hits military checkpoint south of Damascus

Xinhua, April 25, 2016 Adjust font size:

At least eight people were killed and four cars completely burned, when a car bomb tore through a military checkpoint near a predominantly-Shiite district south of the capital Damascus on Monday, a military source told Xinhua. Endit