A man and a girl have lost their lives and another person has been injured following the detonation of a car bomb in the town of Yaramana, located on the outskirts of Damascus.
"The Internal Security Forces have deployed a security cordon in the city of Yaramana following the explosion of an explosive device and investigations are being carried out to clarify the circumstances of the incident," the Syrian security forces body said on social media.
A team from the Ambulance Services of the Damascus Region went to the scene, evacuating the injured to Al Radi Hospital. At the same time, units of Civil Defense managed to put out the fire caused by the explosion, the director of operations of the Syrian Directorate of Emergency and Disaster Management, Amer Zarifa, said to the Syrian official news agency, SANA. In parallel, personnel from the Ministry of the Interior have already taken on the inquiries to clarify what happened.
In that same locality, in a previous incident, another 14 people were injured by another explosion.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has also reported three other deaths recorded during Saturday's day. A man died from the explosion of a mine in Badia, near the Al Taim oil field, in eastern Deir Ezzor.
Likewise, a young man has died from gunshots after a dispute in Granij, also in eastern Deir Ezzor, and another person has lost their life in a tribal clash in Al Akirshi, in the south of Raqqa.