Group says 54 died in Syria military factory blast<\/p>\n\n\n\n
8 February 2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n
BEIRUT (AP) \u2014 A bombing at a bus stop near a military factory in central Syria this week killed 54 people, all civilian workers at the plant, an activist group said Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rami Abdul-Rahman of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the explosion took place on Wednesday in the village of al-Buraq, near the central city of Hama.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The area is government-controlled, which is why reports on the blast were slow to emerge, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A mini-bus packed with explosives blew up near a bus stop where factory workers were waiting to go home after work, said Abdul-Rahman. The dead included 11 women. He said the factory makes military supplies, but not weapons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“These people work for the Ministry of Defense, but they are all civilians,” he said “There was no one from the military” killed in the blast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Syria’s state news agency reported the explosion on Wednesday evening, saying “terrorists” detonated a car bomb near a factory. It did not say what the factory produced or specify the number of dead and wounded. The regime refers to rebels fighting to topple President Bashar Assad’s government as terrorists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
No one has claimed responsibility for the blast, which resembled others in recent months that appeared to target buildings associated with Syria’s military and security services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Some of the bombings have been claimed by an al-Qaida-linked group fighting alongside the rebels, Jabhat al-Nusra, which the U.S. had designated as a terrorist organization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Commenting on the bomb attack, Ribal Al-Assad, the Director of the ODFS, said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“I condemn this barbaric and senseless attack. The perpetrators must be brought to justice. I call on both sides in the Syrian conflict to end the violence and move towards dialogue and a peaceful transition as that is the only way forward.”<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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