Car Bomb Hits Damascus Gas Station: 11 Killed, 40 Wounded
Crowded Station Had Just Received Supply of Fuel
It is a dangerous time to be looking for gasoline in Metro Damascus. For the second day in a row, a gas station that just got a fresh shipment of gasoline, packed with motorists, was destroyed, this time by a car bomb detonated remotely.
Red Crescent workers were shown at the site, in the religiously mixed Barzeh al-Balad District, in the wake of the attack, helping badly wounded people away from the area. At least 11 people were killed, 40 others wounded, and several vehicles were destroyed.
The attack comes as Damascus residents are still reeling from a missile strike against a gas station in the suburb of Mulelha yesterday, which killed at least 30 people and wounded a large number of others. That station too was hit just after getting a shipment of petrol. No one claimed credit for today’s attack.
As the civil war has ground on in Syria, oil and gas shipments have arrived irregularly, leading to hording and shortages. This has led to crowding at stations that have a supply, which has unfortunately also made them targets.
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Ben_C
January 3rd, 2013 at 10:04 pm
Ditz wrote:
"The attack comes as Damascus residents are still reeling from a missile strike against a gas station in the suburb of Mulelha yesterday, which killed at least 30 people and wounded a large number of others."
Ditz, with all due respect (all that is due): to actually believe this, much less write this now, you have proven yourself to be: a completely hopeless Kool-aid drinking fool… I'll repeat: a completely hopeless Kool-aid drinking fool…
Are there any baseless negative accusations about President Assad you won't believe? You're giving incentives to the terrorists…
Good luck with the next fundraiser AW.C….
Ben_C
January 3rd, 2013 at 10:04 pm
Ditz wrote:
The attack comes as Damascus residents are still reeling from a missile strike against a gas station in the suburb of Mulelha yesterday, which killed at least 30 people and wounded a large number of others."
Ditz, with all due respect (all that is due), to believe, much less write this now, you are: a completely hopeless kool-aid drinking fool…I repeat: a completely hopeless Kool-aid drinking fool…
Good luck on the next fundraiser AW.C….
Bristle
January 3rd, 2013 at 11:09 pm
There are still a lot of reasons for me to visit AW but Jason Ditz our local "Rami Abdelrahman" aka "Syrian Observatory for Human Rights", is not one of them….
Bianca
January 4th, 2013 at 10:47 am
The Syrian mess is getting tiresome, and no amount of Hitlerazing Assad will work. Just picked the wrong guy.
Instead, do make an inventory of the deeds committed by rebels, the "legitimate respresentative of Syrian people".
Let me give you a running start: executions of civilians, and bragging about it in western media (Der Spiegel), killing teachers for not teaching sharia, killing shop owners for not getting them supplies, killing hundreds in Houla, including little children, just to try to frame government — very stupidly at that, killing postmen in post office and tossing their bodies from the roof on the streets, more killings in small vilalges, killing and etnically cleansing Christian and Alawite townships, exacuting ten prisoners while filming it — as they begged for life, teaching (on camera) a kid to behead some unfortunate person, car bombs, more car bombs and more car bombs, organizing attacks near airports to disrupt the airtrafic, showing chemical experiments on rabbits (recorded) to show they have chemical weapons.
We are all growing tired of the lies, lies and more lies.
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