{"id":30172,"date":"2019-01-22T20:22:23","date_gmt":"2019-01-22T20:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=30172"},"modified":"2019-01-22T20:22:23","modified_gmt":"2019-01-22T20:22:23","slug":"car-bomb-kills-one-in-syrias-latakia-province","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=30172","title":{"rendered":"Car bomb kills one in Syria’s Latakia province"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A car bomb exploded at a busy intersection in the coastal Syrian city of Latakia, killing one civilian and wounding 14, state-run media reported.<\/p>\n

Tuesday’s blast was the second in Syria’s government-controlled areas in the last two days, shattering a sense of relative calm in these territories that had somewhat stabilised after major advances by troops against rebel groups in different parts of the country.<\/p>\n

Syria’s state-run media said the explosion took place in the city’s Al-Hammam Square. It also said specialised units dismantled a second bomb before it went off at the same location.<\/p>\n

“The terrorist explosion caused the death of one civilian and wounded 14 others,” it said, citing a top health official in the province.<\/p>\n

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Most of those wounded were hit by shrapnel, the director of the city’s Tishrin hospital, Louay Naddaf, told state television.<\/p>\n

Footage broadcast on television showed people gathered around the wreckage of a smoldering car.<\/p>\n

Latakia has been a government stronghold since the Syrian conflict began in March 2011.<\/p>\n

But the province has been targeted in “sporadic strikes” by rebels gruops, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war monitor.<\/p>\n

The region borders the last major area outside of the government’s control, which includes much of Idlib<\/a> province as well as adjacent parts of Hama and Aleppo provinces.<\/p>\n

The blast came two days after an explosion<\/a> struck a neighborhood in the capital Damascus. No casualties were reported.<\/p>\n

Al Jazeera’s Zeina Khodr, reporting from Beirut in neighbouring Lebanon, said it is rare for attacks to take place in government-controlled territories, which raises questions about security in those areas.<\/p>\n

Khodr said analysts who appeared on Syrian state media were warning that this may mark a “new phase in the conflict”.<\/p>\n

Syria’s war, now in its eighth year, has killed nearly half a million people and forced more than half its pre-war population from their homes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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