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Terror blast on Syria-Jordan border kills, injures dozens

Saturday, 21 January 2017 10:58 AM [ Last Update: Saturday, 21 January 2017 12:43 PM ]

File photo of Rukban Refugee Camp in Jordan near the border with Syria

Dozens are reportedly killed and injured in a terrorist explosion rocking a refugee camp based in Jordan, close to the border with Syria.

The incident saw explosives loaded onto a vehicle being set off at the premises, nknown as Rukban Refugee Camp, Lebanon’s al-Ahd news website reported.

Last June, a booby-trapped car exploded near a Jordanian Armed Forces outpost at the makeshift camp, killing six people and injuring 14 Jordanian soldiers.

The common border has been declared a "closed military zone" ever since.

Last September, the Syrian military fully liberated the northwestern flashpoint city of Aleppo from Takfiri terrorists. The victory delivered the most severe blow to the terrorists and their foreign backers since 2011, when the country was engulfed in foreign-backed militancy. Since then, sporadic terror strikes have rocked various parts of the Arab country in, what is seen as, retaliatory sting attacks.

Also on Saturday, terrorists fired more than 20 mortar rounds against residential neighborhoods in the city of Dara’a in southwestern Syria, the official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) reported. The attacks injured one civilian and inflicted material losses on the targeted structures.

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