Blast in Damascus, casualties reported
A suicide bomber reportedly detonated explosives at a police station
Workers remove the debris inside a police station in the Midan neighbourhood of Damascus (Reuters)
Published date: 16 December 2016 17:51 GMT
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Last update: 7 years 5 months ago
An explosion rocked a southeastern neighbourhood of Syria's capital on Friday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
The Britain-based monitor said it was unclear what had caused the blast in the Midan district of Damascus but that some people may have been wounded.
Syrian state television said a young girl aged about nine blew herself up inside the station and showed blurred images of what looked like a blackened girl's head in a blanket.
A witness in the area of the blast told Reuters a young girl entered the police station and, after asking to go to the toilet, blew herself up.
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