Damascus. A car bomb killed 12 people at a funeral in the mainly Druze and Christian suburb of Jaramana on the southeastern outskirts of the Syrian capital on Tuesday, state television reported, as cited by AFP. "Another 48 people were wounded, many critically, in a terrorist car blast that targeted a funeral procession in Jaramana," it said
Beirut, A car exploded during a funeral in a Damascus today killing several people, Syrian state television reported, as a watchdog said regime forces shelled rebel bastions in the capital, the commercial hub Aleppo and the northwest village of Kfar Nabal. The violence followed a bloody Monday in which 190 people -- 116 civilians, 40 rebels and 34 soldiers -- were killed across Syria, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights confirmed the state television report of a blast in the capital's southeastern Jaramana suburb, and said it was caused by a car
bomb. "In the suburb of Jaramana, a car laden with explosives hit a funeral held for two regime supporters," said the Britain-based watchdog. "Some people were critically injured." The funeral was held for two people killed in a bomb
attack yesterday, the Observatory said.
The attack came amid a marked escalation of army shelling targeting the eastern belt of Damascus, home to some of the rebel Free Syrian Army's best organised battalions. The Observatory said that at least four soldiers were killed in fighting with rebels in Zamalka and Jubar, which followed fierce shelling through the night of the two eastern neighbourhoods as well as the adjacent districts of Qaboon and Ein Tarma.
Yesterday, rebels from the Free Syrian Army claimed to have downed a military helicopter in Qaboon during heavy shelling and fierce fighting that also engulfed nearby Jubar as well as several towns outside the capital. The offensive in the capital's east follows a regime onslaught on its southwestern belt last week which, according to the opposition, included a massacre in the town of Daraya in which hundreds died.
Army bombardment today of the village of Kfar Nabal in the northwest province of Idlib, meanwhile, killed at least 13 civilians, including two women, according to the Observatory.
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