Report: Car bomb in Syrian capital kills 10

FILE - In this Dec. 9, 2015 file photo made from video footage provided by the Russian Defense Ministry, a Russian Su-34 bomber drops bombs on a target. Human Rights Watch report, an international rights group, released a report Monday, Feb. 8, 2016, that said Syrian government forces and the Russian military have been carrying out daily cluster bomb attacks over the past two weeks in Syria, killing 37 people. Cluster bombs, which are widely banned, open in flight and scatter dozens of explosive submunitions over wide areas. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP, File) FILE - In this Dec. 9, 2015 file photo made from video footage provided by the Russian Defense Ministry, a Russian Su-34 bomber drops bombs on a target. Human Rights Watch report, an international rights group, released a report Monday, Feb. 8, 2016, that said Syrian government forces and the Russian military have been carrying out daily cluster bomb attacks over the past two weeks in Syria, killing 37 people. Cluster bombs, which are widely banned, open in flight and scatter dozens of explosive submunitions over wide areas. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP, File)

By Associated Press February 9, 2016 3 min read

BEIRUT (AP) – A car bomb driven by a suicide attacker exploded Tuesday near a police officers’ club in the Syrian capital Damascus, killing at least 10 people and causing wide material damage, state media said.

The state-run SANA news agency said Tuesday the blast went off near a vegetable market in the northern neighborhood of Masaken Barzeh.

State TV reported the blast occurred near a police officers’ club, killing at least 10. It showed footage of the blast scene, including several damaged vehicles and one burnt-out car. The club and the market are next to one another.

The opposition’s Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the blast killed eight policemen and wounded 20 after it was detonated in the parking lot of the officers’ club.

Such attacks are not uncommon in the Syrian capital, the seat of power of President Bashar Assad.