At least 20 dead in blasts in Syria's Tartus

A child walks past a burnt vehicle at the site of a suicide bombing suspected

At least 20 people were killed and several wounded in blasts on Monday in Syria's regime bastion of Tartus, state media reported.

"Terrorist explosions in Tartus killed more than 20 people and wounded a number of others," the official SANA news agency quoted an interior ministry source as saying.

There was no immediate official toll for simultaneous blasts in the coastal city of Jableh to the north.

Source: AFP