Dozens Killed in Syria Suicide Bombing

{{At least 43 people have been killed after a suicide bomber blew up a truck laden with explosives at an army checkpoint in Syria’s central city of Hama, according to the pro-opposition Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.}}

The man blew himself up inside the vehicle on Sunday on a busy road on the outskirts of the government-held city, the Syrian state news agency SANA said.

It blamed the attack on “terrorists”, the term it uses to describe rebel forces trying to topple President Bashar al-Assad.

The Syrian Observatory said the attack targeted an army checkpoint.

“At least 31 people, including regime troops, were killed when a man detonated a truck laden with explosives at a checkpoint near an agricultural vehicles company on the road linking Hama to Salamiyeh,” the Observatory said.

The Britain-based group said the death toll was likely to rise, as “there are dozens of wounded, some of them in critical condition”.

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