{"id":1852,"date":"2009-12-03T07:51:37","date_gmt":"2009-12-03T13:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=1852"},"modified":"2009-12-03T07:51:37","modified_gmt":"2009-12-03T13:51:37","slug":"syria-bus-explosion-kills-3-injures-dozens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/syria-bus-explosion-kills-3-injures-dozens\/","title":{"rendered":"Syria Bus explosion kills 3 injures dozens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1855\" title=\"syria bus explotion\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/syria-bus-explotion.jpg\" alt=\"syria bus explotion\" width=\"383\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/syria-bus-explotion.jpg 383w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/syria-bus-explotion-280x157.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 383px) 100vw, 383px\" \/>officials say that<strong> 3<\/strong><\/strong><strong> people have died and dozens injured in an explosion at a petrol station in the Syrian capital Damascus.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The tyre of the crowded bus had exploded while air was being pumped into it\u00a0 said Syrian Interior Minister<\/p>\n<p>The bus that was carrying Iranian pilgrims visiting the Sayyida Zeinab shrine for Shia Muslims was badly damaged.<\/p>\n<p>The explosion was first thought to be an attack as last year a car bomb went off killing 17 people on the road leading to the shrine which was blamed on Sunni militants.<\/p>\n<p><!-- E SF -->Mr Sammour ruled out an attack after Thursday&#8217;s explosion, which injured many people.<\/p>\n<p>He says the bus driver and two petrol station workers died when the tyre blew up as air was being pumped into it.<\/p>\n<p>Eyewitnesses and media reports had earlier said six people had been killed.<\/p>\n<p>The al-Sayyida Zeinab shrine, popular with Iranian pilgrims, is dedicated to the granddaughter of the Prophet Muhammad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>officials say that 3 people have died and dozens injured in an explosion at a petrol station in the Syrian capital Damascus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,37],"tags":[2846,2848,2847,2849,2850,2843,2845,2844],"class_list":["post-1852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily","category-middle-east","tag-iranian-pilgrims","tag-sayyida-zeinab","tag-sayyida-zeinab-shrine","tag-shia-muslims","tag-sunni-militants","tag-syria-bus-explosion","tag-syria-damascus","tag-syria-explosion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}