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Explosions rock Syrian capital
Terror bomb blast in Damascus kills 27 and injures more than 100
Cars packed with explosives targeted the criminal police headquarters and an air security intelligence centre at 7.30 a.m. (0530 GMT), television said, shredding the facade of one building and sending debris flying through the streets. (AFP/Getty Images)
Gruesome images from the sites showed what appeared to be smoldering bodies in two separate vehicles, a wrecked minivan smeared with blood, and severed limbs collected in sacks. (AFP/Getty Images)
A Syrian woman stands next to shattered windows as she looks down from her balcony onto a street following twin bomb attacks on security buildings in the capital Damascus on March 17, 2012. Several civilians and police were killed, the state television reported without giving figures, adding that preliminary reports suggested bombers had blown up vehicles packed with explosives. (AFP/Getty Images)
A photographer takes a picture of the damage outside residential flats following twin bomb attacks on security buildings in the capital Damascus on March 17, 2012. At least 27 people were killed, mostly civilians, and almost 100 wounded in two huge bomb blasts in the Syrian capital, the health minister announced on a state television channel. (AFP/Getty Images)
Parked cars are damaged following twin bomb attacks on security buildings in the capital Damascus on March 17, 2012. At least 27 people were killed, mostly civilians, and almost 100 wounded in two huge bomb blasts in the Syrian capital, the health minister announced on a state television channel. (AFP/Getty Images)
At least 27 people were killed and 140 wounded, an interior ministry statement said. (AFP/Getty Images)
“We heard a huge explosion. At that moment the doors in our house were blown out … even though we were some distance from the blast,” said one elderly man, his head wrapped in a bandage. (AFP/Getty Images)
No one claimed responsibility for the detonations, which followed a series of suicide attacks that have struck Damascus and Syria’s second city Aleppo over the past three months.(AFP/Getty Images)
The explosions came two days after the first anniversary of the uprising, in which more than 8,000 people have been killed and about 230,000 forced to flee their homes, according to United Nations figures. (AFP/Getty Images)
