Damascus shrine attack death toll rises to 62: monitor
The death toll in a series of bomb attacks near a Shiite shrine south of Damascus on Sunday has risen to 62, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Earlier, state television said at least 30 people were killed when a car bombing and two suicide attacks ripped through the Sayyida Zeinab shrine area, while the Observatory said 31 died in at least three attacks
"The attacks came as pupils were leaving school, and several of them were killed," the state broadcaster reported.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group gave a slightly higher death toll of 31 and said there were four attacks.
"There was a car bomb and two suicide bombers who blew themselves up. We don't know the cause of the fourth explosion," the Britain-based Observatory said.
At the end of January, the Islamic State group said it was behind bombings near the shrine that killed 71 people, among them five children.
The Sayyida Zeinab shrine contains the grave of a granddaughter of the Prophet Mohammed and is particularly revered as a pilgrimage site by Shia Muslims.
Photo: Daily Mail
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