Baladi News
A huge explosion has been heard near a military intelligence office at the southern edge of Syria's capital Damascus, pro-regime media reported.
The head of the city's civil defence, Asef Hababe, told the Reuters news agency the blast on Sunday came from military technicians detonating a bomb.
State TV had said earlier that initial reports pointed to a 'terrorist attack,' and that a number of people were injured.
Pro-regime pages said that the regime closed all the roads leading to the explosion site, where ambulances and firefighters went to the scene.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that some people had been killed and injured in the blast.
"The explosion took place near a security branch in the south of the city," the SOHR told the AFP news agency.
"There are some people killed and injured but we could not verify the toll immediately."
It said that shooting followed the explosion.
Regime media subsequently stopped reporting on the blast.
Source: Middle East Eye + Baladi News