Bus explodes in Syria causing casualties

[IrishBuckeye]

Source: reuters

DUBAI (Reuters) - A bus exploded in a busy Damascus suburb causing dozens of casualties, Al Jazeera television reported on Thursday.

"Dozens of casualties in a bus explosion in the Sayyeda Zainab area in Damascus," the Doha-based television network said in a news flash without giving details.

The suburb is home to a pilgrimage site for Shi'ite Muslims.



Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE5B214820091203

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Side note: Saeed Jalili, Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, has arrived in Damascus for bilateral talks on matters of mutual interest today (Thursday).

[dipsydoodle]

1. Found to have been a serious accident

not terror related.

[aquart]

2. Buses do not tend to explode on their own. What happened?

[dipsydoodle]

3. It was a tyre which blew up.

Was on TV news here in the UK hours ago. Also see here : http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/8392369.stm

[yava]

4. Iran says it was a bus full of their pilgrims

and that all the dead are their citizens.
We are sorry for the families.
It must be this Shiai-Sunni rift in that region or Sadami refugees in Syria (those guys being secularand enjoy Syrian vodka).
I think we will never really know more on this one because "important" people dont go to pilgrimage on buses in the desert. I feel sorry for how cheap life has become over there.