Damascus explosion wounds pro-government analyst’s wife, son

BEIRUT — Syria’s state news agency says a bomb exploded in a car in Damascus, wounding a woman and her son. Activist groups say the victims were the wife and son of a pro-government political analyst.

SANA does not identify the two or say how seriously they were hurt in the explosion this morning. Opposition media activists and the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a war-monitoring group, say the victims are analyst Taleb Ibrahim’s wife and son. He was not in the car at the time of the blast.

A person who answers Ibrahim’s telephone in Damascus confirmed that, without giving further details.

No group immediately claims responsibility for the attack.

Attacks in the Syrian capital have dropped significantly in recent months, after government forces captured once rebel-held Damascus suburbs.

— AP