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Syria violence: Blast 'kills Islamist rebel chiefs' | |
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A bomb blast has killed at least 20 people at a meeting of leaders of the key Islamist insurgent group Ahrar al-Sham in Syria, reports say. | |
State TV said the group's head, Hassan Abboud, was killed in the attack in the north-western town of Ram Hamdan, though other reports said he was hurt. | |
The group is part of the Islamic Front, a coalition of seven rebel groups. | |
In February, Ahrar al-Sham blamed the rival Islamic State group for an attack which killed several of its members. | |
Ahrar al-Sham is one of the biggest rebel groups fighting the government of President Bashar al-Assad. | |
Two activist groups said a suicide bomber had detonated a vest at the meeting in Idlib province on Tuesday. | |
In an interview with the BBC in June, Abboud had denounced Islamic State (IS), saying it represented "the worst image ever of Islam. |