Explosion near Macron’s Damascus hotel
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By Yamam Al Shaar, Kinda Makieh and Clotaire Achi DAMASCUS, July 7 (Reuters) - Two bombs exploded on Tuesday near a hotel in Damascus where French President Emmanuel Macron spent the night, wounding 18 people and overshadowing the first visit to Syria by a European Union head of state since Bashar al-Assad was toppled.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had warned that intelligence reports showed an overnight attack on the country was likely.
A major explosion has reportedly taken place in the luxury holiday hotspot with casualties expected
According to the police, investigators found no traces of explosive materials, detonators, initiation systems, explosive residues or blast patterns typically associated with explosive attacks.
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