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Car bomb kills nine in Syria

January 4, 2013

At least nine people have been killed and 40 wounded after a car bomb exploded at a crowded petrol station in the Syrian capital Damascus. The UN says the death toll in the Syria conflict is now more than 60,000.

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Wreckage and debris are seen after a car bomb exploded at a crowded petrol station in Barzeh al-Balad district in Damascus, in this handout photograph released by Syria's national news agency SANA on January 3, 2013. At least 11 people were killed and 40 wounded in the explosion, opposition activists said.
Image: Reuters

A car bomb at a petrol station in the Barzeh al-Balad district of Damascus has killed at least nine people according to a Syrian activist group.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack.

It is the second time that a petrol station has been hit in the capital this week. Dozens of people were killed in an air strike as they waited for fuel on Wednesday, according to opposition sources.

Fuel has become increasingly scarce during the country's 21-month-long insurgency aimed at overthrowing President Bashar Assad.

On Wednesday, a report by the UN's Human Rights Council said more than 60,000 people have been killed in Syria since the start of the uprising in March 2011.

hc/lw (Reuters, AFP, AP)

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