DAMASCUS: A double bomb attack outside a shrine near the Syrian capital killed at least two people on Saturday, state media said.
The official SANA news agency said a suicide bomber and a car bomb struck at the entrance to the Sayyida Zeinab shrine. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a British-based monitoring group, reported a higher toll of at least nine people killed and 30 wounded in the blasts.
The shrine, around 10 kilometres (six miles) south of the centre of Damascus, is heavily guarded by pro-government forces but has still been the target of several militant attacks, including those claimed by the Islamic State (IS) militant group.
The last attack on Sayyida Zeinab on April 25 killed at least seven and wounded dozens. A string of IS bombings near the shrine in February left 134 people dead, most of them civilians, according to the Observatory. And in January, another attack claimed by IS killed 70 people.
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