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Syria: UN envoy strongly condemns bombings in Damascus and Homs

| | Feb 22, 2016, at 02:14 pm
New York, Feb 22 (Just Earth News/IBNS)The United Nations Special Envoy for Syria has strongly condemned bombings in two Syrian cities earlier on Sunday that resulted in more than 100 people killed or injured, including children.

In a statement attributable to his spokesperson, the UN envoy, Staffan de Mistura, condemned “yet another set of car bomb and suicide explosions in Damascus and Homs cities which killed and injured on Sunday over 100 people, including children.”

da Mistura said in the statement that the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIL/Da'esh, claimed responsibility for the “terrorist acts.”

Photo: UNICEF/Nasar Ali

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