Syria: Explosion in Germaine city due to a car bomb

Syrian Internal Security Forces announced on Saturday that two people, one of them a child, were killed and another injured in a car explosion in the city of Jaramana, in the Damascus countryside. According to the Syrian News Agency (SANA), the Internal Security Forces said their troops had established a security cordon at the site and launched investigations to uncover the circumstances of the blast. Syrian television reported that the explosion was caused by an explosive device planted inside one of the cars, and it occurred near the Nessim Corniche in Jaramana, close to the Suwayda garage. Civil Defense teams from the Ministry of Emergency Affairs and Disaster Management arrived at the scene, while circulating video footage showed a body lying on the ground amid a gathering of residents in the vicinity of the explosion.