[Rudaw] A woman was injured in a kaboom in Damascus on Friday, according to Syrian media.
The explosion occurred in the al-Mazzeh area of the capital city, the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) reported.
The blast was caused by "an attack by several unknown persons who targeted a house," state-run al-Ikhbariya TV cited a security source as saying.
The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported "three explosions" in the area, which it said "overlooks the Presidential Palace road."
Images circulated by Syrian official television showed a hole in the wall of a house, suggesting damage from a missile or bullet.
Al-Mazzeh is a strategically significant area that includes the Mazzeh Air Base, a former Syrian Air Force installation. The area has been repeatedly targeted by Israeli Arclight airstrike
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The Syrian defense ministry says in a statement that two Katyusha rockets were launched from the outskirts of the city toward residential neighborhoods in the Mazzeh area and that it is searching for the launch sites.
An Associated Press journalist at the scene says that security forces cordoned off the area and prevented anyone from getting close to the building that was struck. Journalists were later allowed in to film the damaged building.
State television reports that one woman was wounded in the blast, which was caused by an attack by “unknown assailants,” adding that security forces are investigating. The defense ministry statement later says that “a number of people” are injured without giving more details.
During Syria’s 14-year civil war, explosions and bombings in Damascus were not uncommon, but since the fall of president Bashar Assad’s government in December last year by insurgents who took over his seat of power, calm has largely prevailed.
A rocket attack in the capital is highly unusual.
There have been other attacks since Assad’s fall however, including a suicide bombing that targeted a church on the outskirts of Damascus in June.
Israel has also carried out hundreds of airstrikes around the country since the end of the 54-year Assad dynasty, mainly targeting assets of the Syrian army, although it has not struck the capital in recent months.
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