Suicide bomber kills many in Syria

DAMASCUS - A suicide bomber riding a car bomb blew himself up late Tuesday at an intersection in southern Daraa province, killing an unidentified number of civilians and law-enforcement members, according to state-run SANA news agency.

The bomber targeted law-enforcement forces at al-Jisa intersection in Daraa countryside, said SANA, adding the blast caused damages to nearby buildings.

The report gave no further details on the number of casualties.

The bombing in Daraa is the latest in a string of suicide attacks that have hit the Arab nation lately.

On Sunday, an "armed terrorist group" detonated a booby-trapped car in Aleppo's residential neighborhood of al-Sulaymanyia as the specialized authorities found the car suspicious and were trying to pull it out from the area.

On Saturday, two suicide car bombers detonated their explosives near the aviation intelligence directorate and the criminal security department in Damascus, killing 29 civilians and security personnel and wounding 140 others.

Another car bomb exploded Saturday in Damascus at the Yarmouk camp housing thousands of Palestinians in south of the city. SANA said two "terrorists" were killed when their bomb-laden car exploded at the camp.

Nobody has claimed responsibility for the explosions, while the Syrian government accused Takfiri terrorists backed by foreign parties of being behind the blasts.

The Syrian government has accused some Arab and Western countries of providing weapons and financial support to the armed groups in Syria. It said last December that "armed terrorist groups" had killed more than 2,000 army and security personnel during the unrest.

The United Nations said recently that more than 8,000 people had died in Syria's violence. In Geneva, the UN refugee agency said 230,000 Syrians have fled their homes since the beginning of domestic violence in Syria last year.