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  • Monday ,22 February 2016
العربية

IS group claims Damascus shrine bomb attacks

By-Ahram

Copts and Poliltical Islam

00:02

Monday ,22 February 2016

IS group claims Damascus shrine bomb attacks

The Islamic State militant group said it carried out two suicide bombing attacks Sunday near a Shia shrine south of Syria's capital that a monitoring group said killed 62 people.The Islamic State militant group said it carried out two suicide bombing attacks Sunday near a Shia shrine south of Syria's capital that a monitoring group said killed 62 people.

IS group said two militants blew themselves up at the Sayyida Zeinab shrine area, although state television and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group reported three bomb attacks.