Bombing scene - Photo: RT
Syrian news agency SANA reported the state's first blast was a car bomb exploded at a bus station near the Sayyida Zeinab Shiite church. Then two suicide bombers when locals crowd gathered at the scene of the first bombing.
AFP reporter at the scene described the blast created a huge crater in the road and that the neighboring houses were heavily damaged. More than 12 cars and a bus on fire, smoke spiraling up. Currently the fire brigade are still trying to put out the fire.
Reuters sources revealed in the more than 60 people were killed 25 Shiite gunmen. Organization Syrian Observatory Human Rights (SOHR) warned the death toll will certainly also increase because rescue teams still searching for the dead and injured at the scene.
Then the terrorist group Islamic State (IS) spoke responsibility for the bombing. On social networks, IS said the two gunmen of the organization has carried out bombing campaigns "in the lair of the men in the Sayyida Zeinab infidels".
Sayyida Zeinab church's crypt have nieces Muslim prophet Mohammed. This is considered extremely sacred sites for Shiite Muslims, always attracting Shiite pilgrims from Iran, Lebanon and Iraq, including in times of war.
According SOHR, this is also the area with a large presence of Hezbollah forces from Lebanon. Hezbollah deployed many soldiers at the checkpoint near the Sayyida Zeinab church. In 2015, there were two suicide bombings at a checkpoint here.
Hezbollah is a close ally of the government Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and sent troops to support the Syrian army in the civil war in 2011. Hezbollah claims need to intervene militarily in Syria because of the war threat Sayyida Zeinab area churches.
Sunni Muslim organizations like IS extremist Al-Nusra Front or consider Shiites as "heretics", so regularly attack the Shiite community.
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