Syria bomb kills 9, Damascus blames foreign plot [View all]
Source: Reuters
By Joseph Logan
BEIRUT | Sat May 19, 2012 9:02am EDT
(Reuters) - A car bomb blew up at a Syrian intelligence post in the eastern city of Deir al-Zor on Saturday, killing up to nine people, activists and state media said.
State television said the attack was the latest evidence that Syria is facing a foreign-sponsored Sunni Islamist conspiracy rather than a broad popular uprising against President Bashar al-Assad.
The official SANA news agency said the blast had killed nine and wounded about 100, including guards, at what it called military installations. It said residences had been damaged. An activist said one man had been killed when the blast brought the roof of his house down.
State television broadcast footage of smoke rising over the city, pools of blood amid rubble, the damaged facades of buildings and twisted, smoking vehicles.
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