GRAPHIC content: Damascus rocked with explosions
Twin blasts by suicide car bombers killed 55 people and wounded hundreds of others on Thursday in Damascus during morning rush hour traffic, according to the Syrian Arab News Agency. The UN observer chief appealed for help to put an end to the bloodshed that has ravaged the country of Syria.
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- A handout picture released by the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) shows an aerial view of the site of twin blasts in Damascus. (Syrian News Agency/Getty)
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- A handout picture released by the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) shows smoke rising from the site of twin blasts in Damascus. Two powerful blasts struck Damascus during morning rush hour, killing scores, wounding dozens and prompting the UN observer chief to appeal for help to end the bloodshed ravaging Syria. (Syrian Arab News Agency/Getty)
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- The chief of the U.N. Supervision Mission to Syria, Norwegian Major General Robert Mood, and his team inspect the site of an explosion in Damascus. (Syrian Arab News Agency/Reuters)
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- People wounded in an explosion are treated at a hospital in Damascus. Two explosions shook the Syrian capital Damascus on Thursday killing and wounding dozens of people. (Syrian Arab News Agency/Reuters)
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- People run carrying a burnt body at the site of an explosion in Damascus. Dozens of people were killed or wounded in two “terrorist explosions” which struck a southern district of the Syrian capital Damascus. Syrian Arab News Agency/Reuters)
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- A framed portrait of Syria’s late President Hafez al-Assad, father of current President Bashar al-Assad, is seen at the site of an explosion in a security building in Damascus . Two large explosions killed 40 people in Damascus on Thursday, state media said, destroying dozens of cars on a highway and damaging an intelligence complex involved in President Bashar al-Assad’s crackdown on a 14-month-old uprising. (Khaled al-Hariri/Reuters photo)
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- People gather at the site of an explosion, as seen from a damaged house close to the site in Damascus. (Khaled al-Hariri/Reuters photo)
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- Residents and security personnel gather at the site of an explosion in Damascus. (Khaled al-Hariri/Reuters photo)
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- Men stand at different stair landings of an intelligence complex that was damaged during an explosion in Damascus. (Khaled al-Hariri/Reuters photo)
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- An injured man is carried after an explosion in Damascus, Syria. Two explosions shook the Syrian capital Damascus on Thursday, killing and wounding dozens of people, state media said, in a district that houses a military intelligence complex involved in President Bashar al-Assad’s crackdown on a 14-month uprising. (Khaled al-Hariri/Reuters photo)
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- Residents and security personnel gather at the site of an explosion in Damascus. Two explosions shook the Syrian capital Damascus on Thursday. (Khaled al-Hariri/Reuters photo)
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- Syrians removing remains of victims from the site of twin blasts in Damascus. Two powerful blasts struck Damascus during morning rush hour. (Syrian Arab News Agency/Getty)
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- Syrians rush to the aid of victims at the site of twin blasts in Damascus. (Syrian Arab News Agency/Getty)
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- Two powerful blasts struck Damascus during morning rush hour, killing scores, wounding dozens and prompting the UN observer chief to appeal for help to end the bloodshed ravaging Syria. (Syrian Arab News Agency/Getty images)
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- Security forces inspecting the site of twin blasts in Damascus. Two powerful blasts struck Damascus during morning rush hour, killing scores, wounding dozens and prompting the UN observer chief to appeal for help to end the bloodshed ravaging Syria. (Syrian Arab News Agency/Getty)
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- Norwegian Major General Robert Mood, the head of the UN observers mission in Syria, (C) arrives to inspect the site of twin blasts in Damascus. Two powerful blasts in quick succession rocked the Syrian capital at morning rush hour, killing and wounding dozens of people. (Louai Beshara/Getty images)
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- Sections of a wall is seen torn away, revealing the inside of a security building after an explosion in Damascus. (Khaled al-Hariri/Reuters photo)
Syria suicide bombers kill 55, truce in tatters
Oliver Holmes and Mariam Karouny/Reuters
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Two suicide car bombers killed 55 people and wounded 372 in Damascus on Thursday, state media said, in the deadliest attacks in the Syrian capital since an uprising against President Bashar al-Assad began 14 months ago.
The blasts further shredded a ceasefire which was declared by international mediator Kofi Annan on April 12, but which has failed to halt bloodshed pitting Assad’s security forces against peaceful demonstrators and an array of armed insurgents.
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john dahodi
May 10, 2012 @ 14:05:01
Who should be blamed for this CARNAGE? No one else but the Saudi petro dollars; Jihadis of Iraq, Turkey, Kuwait, Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon, Libya and Saudi Arabia and more importantly blind political and military support including weapons from the super power America.
Like Iraq under Saddam; Syria under Assad was secular, reasonably stable, peaceful and rational in international conduct; but only to maker Iran weak; we have designed the Syria unrest and Saudis have bank rolled their wealth to expand their WAHABI Empire, thousands innocents have lost their lives and many more are on waiting list.
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