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Several people have been killed in a suicide car bomb attack on a police officers' club in the Syrian capital, Damascus, the interior ministry says.Several people have been killed in a suicide car bomb attack on a police officers' club in the Syrian capital, Damascus, the interior ministry says.
The blast also struck a busy vegetable market in the north-eastern Masaken Barzeh district, state media said.The blast also struck a busy vegetable market in the north-eastern Masaken Barzeh district, state media said.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that eight people were killed by the blast and 20 others injured. The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said eight police officers were killed and 20 were injured.
The death toll might rise because some of the injured were in a critical condition, the UK-based group added. A militant from the jihadist group Islamic State carried out the attack, the pro-IS Amaq News Agency reported.
Last month, a multiple bomb attack by the jihadist group Islamic State (IS) near the Sayyida Zeinab shrine south of Damascus left at least 71 people dead. Last month, IS claimed responsibility for a multiple bomb attack near the Sayyida Zeinab shrine, south of Damascus, which left at least 71 people dead.
In Tuesday's attack, the suicide bomber drove his explosives-filled car into the police officers' club before blowing it up, according to an interior ministry statement. In Tuesday's incident, the bomber tried to drive his explosives-filled car into the police officers' club, but was stopped by guards, state TV cited an interior ministry source as saying.
The bomber "then detonated his explosives, causing deaths and injuries", it added, without giving further details.
The Syrian Observatory, which has a network of activists on the ground in Syria, said the death toll might rise from eight because some of those injured were in a critical condition in hospital.