A second Syrian police officer has died following a car bombing at a Damascus police station, the interior ministry said Thursday, a day after the blast that was claimed by Daesh militants. The ministry said Wednesday that a vehicle exploded at the Barzeh police station in the north of the capital, killing a lieutenant colonel and wounding four others, adding that an investigation was ongoing. On Thursday it said that a second policeman had died, with his body transferred to the police hospital in Damascus.

Source: National News Agency – Lebanon