Two simultaneous suicide attacks have killed four people and wounded 13 in southern Damascus near a Shi'ite shrine, Syria's state news agency SANA says.
The agency, quoting police, said the twin attack took place at a security checkpoint near the shrine of Sayyida Zeinab, a granddaughter of the Prophet Mohammed.
"A civilian car had stopped at the checkpoint... and a terrorist got out wearing an explosive vest which he detonated," SANA said on Monday, adding that seconds later a man who had remained in the car blew it up.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the bombing targeted a checkpoint manned by a pro-regime militia, just 10 kilometres east of Damascus and on the road to the international airport.
On February 1, a blast ripped through a bus carrying Lebanese Shi'ite pilgrims in the city, killing at least nine people in an attack claimed by al-Qaeda's Syrian branch.
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At the time, the bus had been heading to Sayyida Zeinab which is controlled by the Syrian army and allied militias.
The Britain-based Observatory also reported that a rocket hit the Adra prison northeast of Damascus on Monday, killing four people and wounding 15.
It did not say if the casualties were prisoners, guards or visitors.
