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Nine people are killed and 22 others are injured in a bombing at a coffeehouse in Damascus, Syria. No group has claimed responsibility.
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In Short: An 11-year-old driver crashed a truck into a group of Buddhist monks in northeastern Thailand, killing 10 of them and injuring others, officials said.
BANGKOK (AP) — An 11-year-old driver crashed a truck into Buddhist monks on a pilgrimage walk in northeastern Thailand on Thursday, killing 10 of them and injuring others, officials said. Security camera footage shared by a local rescue group, Ruam Jai Mukdahan Rescue Association, shows the monks walking in a single line on the side of a road before the truck crashes into them.
The cause of the accident is under investigation, but police said the monks described seeing the vehicle swerving before it slid off the road and crashed into the group. No group has claimed responsibility for the incident.
In a related event, nine people were killed and 22 others injured in a bombing at a coffeehouse in Damascus, Syria. Maher Marwan, the governor of Damascus, said 'bad actors' were trying to destabilize the country. He stated, 'The coming hours will reveal everything and those who shed the blood of Syrians will pay, but Syria will be well as long as we are one hand and this will not shake the Syrian state.
The governor added, 'Day after day, they will get those who have affected Syria’s security. The more Syria attains stability, the more there are those who want to damage it.' No group has claimed responsibility for the bombing in Syria.
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- BANGKOK (AP) — An 11-year-old driver crashed a truck into Buddhist monks on a pilgrimage walk in northeastern Thailand on Thursday, killing 10 of them and injuring others, officials said.
- Security camera footage shared by a local rescue group, Ruam Jai Mukdahan Rescue Association, shows the monks walking in a single line on the side of a road before the truck crashes into them.
- The cause of the accident is under investigation, but police said the monks described seeing the vehicle swerving before it slid off the road and crashed into the group.
- No group has claimed responsibility, but Maher Marwan, the governor of Damascus, said “bad actors” were trying to destabilise the country.
- “The coming hours will reveal everything and those who shed the blood of Syrians will pay, but Syria will be well as long as we are one hand and this will not shake the Syrian state,” the governor said on the…
- “Day after day, they will get those who have affected Syria’s security. The more Syria attains stability, the more there are those who want to damage it,” he said.