A car bomb killed eight security personnel in the city of Suweida in southern Syria, and another explosion killed eight people in Damascus and wounded about 50 on Wednesday, Reuters reported.
A Syrian major are among the dead in an attack against the military headquarters where many prisoners are reportedly kept in detention centers and are abused, and sometimes tortured, by Syrian air force intelligence, the Associated Press reported.
Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a pro-opposition group, said the car bomb in Suweida has also wounded dozens, according to Reuters.
Rami Abdelrahman, the right's group leader, said the car bomb occurred at the regional Air Force Intelligence headquarters located in a city mostly populated by the Druse, a secretive Muslim sect, causing clashes after the eruption, Reuters reported. The Druse have been mostly neutral during the conflict, but some have joined paramilitary forces to support Assad, Reuters reported.
According to the state news agency, SANA, the "terrorist" car bomb blast wounded 41 people, but the report did not talk about the target of the blast. The word terrorist is often used to describe rebels fighting against President Bashar al-Assad by state news, according to Reuters.
There's no current claim of responsibility for either of the explosions, but rebels tied to al-Qaida have bombed security institutions in the past, trying to hit Assad close to home, the AP reported. SANA reported the central Damascus explosions occurring at the country's railway authority which is housed in an old building which once was the main Damascus train station, according to the AP.
Images of people walking from the blast location, where the railway building's roof had shattered, were being broadcast on state television, the AP reported.
