Suicide bombers struck an open-air market and other targets in the southern Syrian city of Sweida early Wednesday. The four attacks killed dozens of people and injured dozens more, local media say, in a region where the government has been fighting ISIS militants.
Citing the Syrian regime’s state media agency, NPR’s Ruth Sherlock reports, “The news report says a motorcycle bomber struck the marketplace just after dawn.”
Other attacks followed. Images from the scene show a truck with a burned and dented hood, sitting in a wide street next to fruit and vegetables from a stall. The ground nearby was littered with charred debris and a pair of sandals, along with a pool of blood. Elsewhere, bodies lay amid the wreckage of part of a building’s exterior that was destroyed.