Terror attack hits Syrian town, casualties feared

A car bomb explosion has hit the city of Dayr al-Zawr in eastern Syria, casualties are feared, state television says.

“A car bomb has exploded in the Ghazi Ayyash neighborhood of Dayr al-Zawr,” the television reported on Monday.

The report added that the “terrorist attack” caused an unknown number of casualties. It gave no further details.

Syrian cities have been targeted by a wave of explosions in the past months.

Earlier this month, at least 55 people were killed and about 400 others were injured in two bombings near a military intelligence building in Damascus.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said that al-Qaeda was responsible for the deadly bombings.

Syria has been experiencing unrest since mid-March 2011.

While the West and the Syrian opposition say the government is responsible for the killings, Damascus blames “outlaws, saboteurs and armed terrorist groups” for the unrest and insists that it is being orchestrated from abroad.