There was no immediate claim of responsibility for what was a rare bombing in the Syrian capital and which the report said happened at 7:25 a.m, the report said, according to Reuters.

A decade of conflict in Syria has killed hundreds of thousands of people and left the country fractured.

But However, attacks in Damascus have been rare since the army crushed rebel enclaves around the city with backing from Russia and Iran-backed forces in 2018. Helped by his allies, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad now controls most of the country.

A bomb attack on an army bus in Damascus on October 20 killed at least 14 people.

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