Suicide Bombers Attack Damascus Police Center: Two Dead And Six Others Injured

Three attackers blew themselves up near the police headquarters in central Damascus on Wednesday, the second such attack to hit the Syrian capital this month, state media said.

The suicide bombers tried to storm the police command center and clashed with guards before detonating explosive devices outside on Khalid bin al-Walid street, the Damascus police chief said on state TV.

Police forces then chased down the third attacker, who blew himself up nearby at the entrance of a clothes market.

According to reports, the blasts killed two people and injured six others.

Earlier this month, militants struck a police station in another part of Damascus, with 17 reported dead in that suicide bombing which Islamic State claimed.

Islamic State and Tahrir al-Sham - led by militants formerly linked to al Qaeda - have each claimed separate suicide blasts that killed scores of people in Damascus before.

“The desperate suicide attempts come as a response to the victories of the Syrian Arab Army and the Interior Ministry is fully ready to thwart any terrorist act,” state television quoted the minister as saying.