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Triple blasts kill 2, injure 11 in Damascus suburb

31 August 2012 03:11 (UTC +04:00)

Baku-APA. Explosions have killed two people and injured 11 others on the outskirts of Damascus as clashes intensify between armed men and government troops across the country, APA reports quoting Press TV.

The casualties were caused late on Thursday when three blasts struck the Dahiet al-Assad area in the capitalâ€™s countryside.

Separately, two car bombs hit the mainly-Druze-and-Christian-populated suburb of Jaramana on the cityâ€™s southeastern outskirts, failing to leave any casualties.

Earlier in the day, seven Syrian government forces and at least 47 insurgents were reportedly killed in heavy clashes that erupted in the flashpoint city of Homs in the country’s west.

The Syrian Army has also killed hundreds of insurgents, among them large numbers of foreign nationals, in and around the northern city of Aleppo over the past days.

Syria has been experiencing unrest since March 2011.

Damascus blames the violence on outlaws, saboteurs, and armed terrorists, funded and instructed by elements outside the country. It also blames Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar for funding and arming the insurgents.

There are reportedly a large number of foreign nationals and al-Qaeda militants in the armed groups fighting the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.