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20 Oct 2013

Suicide bomber kills 31 in Syria’s Hama: state media

Author: admintech | Filed under: World

SANA handout shows men walking amid debris and near damaged vehicles after a suicide bomber in a truck carried out an attack at the eastern entrance of Hama cityBEIRUT (Reuters) – A suicide bomber driving a truck packed with 1.5 metric tons of explosives killed at least 31 people and wounded dozens in the Syrian city of Hama on Sunday, state media and a monitoring group reported. The man blew himself up inside the vehicle on a busy road on the outskirts of the city in central Syria, the SANA news agency said. It blamed "terrorists", the term it uses to describe rebel forces trying to topple President Bashar al-Assad. The pro-opposition Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the attack targeted an army checkpoint but most of the dead were civilians. …

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/suicide-bomb-kills-30-wounds-dozens-syrias-hama-100709681.html