Suicide bomber kills several in Syrian coastal city Latakia
A suicide bomber detonated explosives near a mosque in the Syrian coastal city of Latakia on June 2, killing and wounding several people, a monitoring group and state media reported.
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The explosion took place near the city center as people were leaving prayers, state TV reported, describing it as a terrorist attack.
The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which tracks the conflict using sources on the ground, confirmed the blast took place in a northern area of Latakia.
The Observatory said the blast killed at least three people. State media reported at least one dead and several wounded.
State-run Ikhbariya news channel showed patches of blood on the ground and rescue workers and security personnel carrying wounded people toward ambulances.
Bomb attacks have previously hit Latakia city, which is in President Bashar al-Assad's heartland along the Mediterranean coast.
Shells fired by insurgents later on June 2 hit Assad's ancestral town of Qardaha, further inland in Latakia province, killing at least one person, the Observatory said.
