14 dead, 130 injured as explosion destroys police office in Egypt

Published time: December 24, 2013 00:01
Edited time: December 24, 2013 03:56

A damaged area is seen after an explosion at a security building in Mansoura city, the capital of Dakahlyia Governorate, about 120 km (75 miles) northeast of Cairo, December 24, 2013 (Reuters / Stringer)

Explosions at a police headquarters in Mansoura, Egypt, early Tuesday morning killed at least 14 people and injured 130, according to Egypt's health ministry.
According to the state health ministry, multiple explosions at a security directorate in Mansoura, capital of the Daqahliya province in northern Egypt, occurred early Tuesday, Al-Ahram reported.
Most of the dead were among police agents inside the partially collapsed five-floor building, AP reported.
Egypt's interim Prime Minister Hazem Al Beblawi labeled the attack a “terrorist incident,” saying those responsible "will not escape justice,” according to AP.
The head of the security directorate was among those injured, Daqahliya governor Omar El-Shawadfy told Egypt state television.

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Hisham Masoud, General Manager of Mansoura’s hospitals, told Ahram the casualty toll is expected to rise based on eyewitness reports of the condition of those in the badly-damaged Daqahliya security directorate.
Al-Ahram’s Arabic site quoted an anonymous security source who said two bombs exploded at the same time. The first, the source said, went off on a higher floor in the directorate as the second detonated in a car next to the building.
A third explosive device in another car was defused, the source said.

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Red Mushroom Cloud! Huge Explosion Rocks Damascus Syria Causing Blackout!

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Published on Oct 23, 2013

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Deadly car bomb hits Damascus checkpoint after widespread blackout in Syria

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A car bomb hit a checkpoint in a western suburb of Damascus on Wednesday, causing multiple casualties among the troops manning it, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

The bombing in the Dumar suburb came as much of Syria was plunged into darkness after a rebel attack on a gas pipeline near the capital knocked out power.

"Our activist in the area saw bodies on the ground," said Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman.

Explosion near airport in Damascus is followed by southern Syria blackout

An attack by rebels near Damascus has caused a power outage across Syria, state news agency SANA quoted the electricity minister as saying.

"A terrorist attack on a gas pipeline that feeds a power station in the south has led to a power outage in the provinces, and work to repair it is in progress," Emad Khamis said.

"The whole city just went dark," said a resident who lives in the centre of the city and asked to remain anonymous. She said that she could see the "major glow of a fire" near the airport and the sound of heavy machinegun fire.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based group that reports on abuses and battlefield developments using sources from both sides of Syria's civil war, said the explosion was caused by rebel artillery that hit a gas pipeline near the airport. It was not immediately clear why power was cut to the city.

The Observatory said the rebel shelling was aimed at the town of Ghasula, a few miles (km) from the airport.

Rebels have been trying to push into the capital, a stronghold of President Bashar al-Assad, whose family has ruled Syria for four decades.

More than 100,000 people have been killed during a pro-democracy uprising which started in March 2011.

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Rebels blast gas pipeline near Damascus causing southern Syria blackout

Published time: October 23, 2013 19:24
Edited time: October 23, 2013 22:37 

A gas pipeline was attacked near Damascus causing the capital and the southern part of Syria to suffer a blackout. The electricity minister blamed the blast on rebels.
"A terrorist attack on a gas pipeline that feeds a power station in the south has led to a power outage in the provinces, and work to repair it is in progress," electricity minister Emad Khamis told SANA news agency.

As the pipeline is located near Damascus International Airport, which is some 20 km away from the capital, a power outage also hit Damascus.
RT’s Arabic correspondent in Syria Abutalib Albouhaya has confirmed the power was out in the capital after the gas supply to Tashrin power plant was cut. Albouhaya also said there were several victims near a church in Dummar suburb of Damascus with gunfights going on in Qaboun and Mleha suburbs as well.




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