A car explosion killed one person in Damascus, the official Syrian news agency SANA reports, without identifying the victim.
Security incidents, including blasts targeting military and civilian vehicles, occur intermittently in the capital of war-ravaged Syria.
Quoting a police official, SANA says “one person was killed when an explosive device exploded in their car in the Mazzeh district.” It did not provide any other details.
The explosion comes against a backdrop of heightened regional tensions, including the war between Israel and the Iran-backed Palestinian terror group Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
Last month, an explosive device went off in a car in Mazzeh, an upscale neighborhood of Damascus, without causing any casualties, SANA reported at the time.
Israel has launched hundreds of air strikes in Syria since civil war broke out in 2011, targeting Iranian military officials and other Iran-backed forces, including Lebanon’s Hezbollah, as well as Syrian army positions.
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